אָחוֹת (a.chot) means “sister” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: aw-khoth' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אָחוֹת · a.chot · sister
1) sister 1a) sister (same parents) 1b) half-sister (same father) 1c) relative 1c1) (metaph) of Israel's and Judah's relationship 1d) beloved 1d1) bride 1e) (fig.) of intimate connection 1f) another
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irregular feminine of H251 (אָח); a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
KJV glosses: (an-) other, sister, together.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| sister | 18 |
| my sister | 11 |
| his sister | 7 |
| is my sister | 5 |
| the sister | 5 |
| their sister | 5 |
| and their sister | 4 |
| sisters | 4 |
| and sister | 3 |
| and the sister | 3 |
| another | 3 |
| her sister | 3 |
| of your sister | 3 |
| our sister | 3 |
| your sister | 3 |
| let my sister | 2 |
| of his sister | 2 |
| about his sisters | 1 |
| and her sister | 1 |
| and his sister | 1 |
| and of your sisters | 1 |
| and your sisters | 1 |
| are my sister | 1 |
| are the sister | 1 |
| for our sister | 1 |
| for your sisters | 1 |
| have made your sisters | 1 |
| his sisters | 1 |
| is your sister | 1 |
| of their sister | 1 |
| of your sisters | 1 |
| one another | 1 |
| or my sister | 1 |
| or sister | 1 |
| other | 1 |
| since you have made your sisters | 1 |
| than her sister | 1 |
| their sisters | 1 |
| then his sister | 1 |
| was their sister | 1 |
| your sisters | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| sister | 20 |
| my sister | 14 |
| their sister | 10 |
| the sister | 7 |
| his sister | 6 |
| of thy sister | 4 |
| thy sisters | 4 |
| to another | 3 |
| and his sister | 2 |
| and the sister | 2 |
| her sister | 2 |
| his sisters | 2 |
| of thy sisters | 2 |
| our sister | 2 |
| thy sister | 2 |
| whose sisters | 2 |
| against another | 1 |
| and all his sisters | 1 |
| and for his sister | 1 |
| and my sister | 1 |
| and my sisters | 1 |
| and to your sisters | 1 |
| and when her sister | 1 |
| another | 1 |
| for his sister | 1 |
| for our sister | 1 |
| for she was the sister | 1 |
| for thy sister | 1 |
| from her sister | 1 |
| more than her sister | 1 |
| of another | 1 |
| of their sister | 1 |
| or for his sister | 1 |
| or for sister | 1 |
| sisters | 1 |
| to her sister | 1 |
| to me my sister | 1 |
| together with | 1 |
| toward the other | 1 |
| unto him i pray thee let my sister | 1 |
| upon his sisters | 1 |
| when thy sisters | 1 |
| with his sister | 1 |
| with me my sister | 1 |
| with my sister | 1 |
| with our sister | 1 |
Page 1 of 3. 104 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Read word by wordPlease 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.”
Read word by wordWhy 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!”
Read word by wordAbraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Read word by wordDidn’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.”
Read word by wordBesides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordSo they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
Read word by wordAnd 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.”
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by wordAbimelech 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.”
Read word by wordEsau 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordThen Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
Read word by wordBut because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
Read word by word“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
Read word by wordJacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
Read word by wordBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Read word by wordand Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
Read word by wordThe sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.
Read word by wordThe children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Read word by wordAnd his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Read word by wordThen his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
Read word by wordAnd Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Read word by wordThen Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Read word by wordFive of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.
Read word by wordMake 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.
Read word by wordMake fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
Read word by wordTwo tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordYou must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
Read word by wordYou must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
Read word by wordYou must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
Read word by wordYou must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordor his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.
Read word by wordEven if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.
Read word by wordFor 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.”
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by word‘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!’
Read word by wordthat 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.”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordAfter some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
Read word by wordAmnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
Read word by wordand 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.”
Read word by wordJonadab 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.’”
Read word by wordSo 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.”
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