אָחוֹת
a.chot
1. sister
a. sister (same parents)
b. half-sister (same father)
c. relative
1. (metaph) of Israel's and Judah's relationship
d. beloved
1. bride
e. (fig.) of intimate connection
f. another
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 104 verses
- Genesis 4:22 וַֽאֲח֥וֹת
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- Genesis 12:13 אֲחֹ֣תִי
Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
- Genesis 12:19 אֲחֹ֣תִי
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
- Genesis 20:2 אֲחֹ֣תִי
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
- Genesis 20:5 אֲחֹ֣תִי
Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
- Genesis 20:12 אֲחֹתִ֤י
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
- Genesis 24:30 אֲחֹתוֹ֒אֲחֹתוֹ֙
As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
- Genesis 24:59 אֲחֹתָ֖ם
So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
- Genesis 24:60 אֲחֹתֵ֕נוּ
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
- Genesis 25:20 אֲח֛וֹת
and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 26:7 אֲחֹ֣תִי
But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
- Genesis 26:9 אֲחֹ֣תִי
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
- Genesis 28:9 אֲח֧וֹת
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
- Genesis 29:13 אֲחֹת֗וֹ
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- Genesis 30:1 בַּאֲחֹתָ֑הּ
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:8 אֲחֹתִ֖י
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- Genesis 34:13 אֲחֹתָֽם׃
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Genesis 34:14 אֲחֹתֵ֔נוּ
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- Genesis 34:27 אֲחוֹתָֽם׃
Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
- Genesis 34:31 אֲחוֹתֵֽנוּ׃פ
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 36:3 אֲח֥וֹת
and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
- Genesis 36:22 וַאֲח֥וֹת
The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.
- Genesis 46:17 אֲחֹתָ֑ם
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- Exodus 2:4 אֲחֹת֖וֹ
And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
- Exodus 2:7 אֲחֹתוֹ֮
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
- Exodus 6:23 אֲח֥וֹת
And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- Exodus 15:20 אֲח֧וֹת
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- Exodus 26:3 אֲחֹתָ֑הּאֲחֹתָֽהּ׃
Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.
- Exodus 26:5 אֲחֹתָֽהּ׃
Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.
- Exodus 26:6 אֲחֹתָהּ֙
Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
- Exodus 26:17 אֲחֹתָ֑הּ
Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
- Leviticus 18:9 אֲחֽוֹתְךָ֤
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
- Leviticus 18:11 אֲחוֹתְךָ֖
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
- Leviticus 18:12 אֲחוֹת־
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
- Leviticus 18:13 אֲחֽוֹת־
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
- Leviticus 18:18 אֲחֹתָ֖הּ
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Leviticus 20:17 אֲחֹת֡וֹאֲחֹת֛וֹ
If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 20:19 אֲח֧וֹתוַאֲח֥וֹת
You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
- Leviticus 21:3 וְלַאֲחֹת֤וֹ
or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.
- Numbers 6:7 וּלְאַ֣חֹת֔וֹ
Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the crown of consecration to his God is upon his head.
- Numbers 25:18 אֲחֹתָ֔ם
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
- Numbers 26:59 אֲחֹתָֽם׃
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
- Deuteronomy 27:22 אֲחֹת֔וֹ
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Joshua 2:13 אַחוֹתַי
that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
- Judges 15:2 אֲחֹתָ֤הּ
“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
- 2 Samuel 13:1 אָח֥וֹת
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:2 אֲחֹת֔וֹ
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:4 אֲח֛וֹת
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
- 2 Samuel 13:5 אֲחוֹתִ֜י
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- 2 Samuel 13:6 אֲחֹתִ֗י
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”