# H269 אָחוֹת

אָחוֹת (ʼâchôwth), Strong’s H269: a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively) KJV: (an-) other, sister, together.. Occurs 114 times.

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*ʼâchôwth* — a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)

KJV: (an-) other, sister, together.

Occurs 114 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָחוֹת 114 n.f. sister
- 1 sister
- 2 = beloved
- 3 symbol. of Judah, Samaria, Sodom & Jerusalem
- 4 fig. of intimate connection
- 5 another

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=22) — Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister…
- [Genesis 12:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=13) — Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
- [Genesis 12:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=19) — Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go…
- [Genesis 20:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=2) — Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- [Genesis 20:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=5) — Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the…
- [Genesis 20:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=12) — Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- [Genesis 24:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=30) — When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister…
- [Genesis 24:59](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=59) — They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.
- [Genesis 24:60](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=60) — They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your…
- [Genesis 25:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=20) — Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban…