# אָחוֹת (achot) Israeli respelling: achot. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H269. 104 Old Testament occurrences. a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively) King James renderings: (an-) other, sister, together. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/achot-h269 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/22) — And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. - [Genesis 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/13) — Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. - [Genesis 12:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/19) — Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. - [Genesis 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/2) — And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. - [Genesis 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/5) — Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my h… - [Genesis 20:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/12) — And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. - [Genesis 24:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/30) — And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, sayi… - [Genesis 24:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/59) — And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men. - [Genesis 24:60](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/60) — And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the… - [Genesis 25:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/20) — And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. - [Genesis 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/7) — And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men… - [Genesis 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/9) — And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him,… - [Genesis 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/9) — Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, t… - [Genesis 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/13) — And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and… - [Genesis 30:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/1) — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. - [Genesis 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/8) — And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. - [Genesis 34:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/13) — And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: - [Genesis 34:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/14) — And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us: - [Genesis 34:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/27) — The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. - [Genesis 34:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/31) — And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? - [Genesis 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/3) — And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth. - [Genesis 36:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/22) — And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. - [Genesis 46:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/17) — And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. - [Exodus 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/4) — And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. - [Exodus 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/7) — Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? - [Exodus 6:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/6/23) — And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. - [Exodus 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/20) — And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dan… - [Exodus 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/3) — The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. - [Exodus 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/5) — Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the s… - [Exodus 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/6) — And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. - [Exodus 26:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/17) — Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. - [Leviticus 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/9) — The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their… - [Leviticus 18:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/11) — The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. - [Leviticus 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/12) — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman. - [Leviticus 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/13) — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman. - [Leviticus 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/18) — Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. - [Leviticus 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/17) — And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it i… - [Leviticus 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/19) — And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bea… - [Leviticus 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/3) — And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. - [Numbers 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/7) — He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecr… - [Numbers 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/18) — For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a pr… - [Numbers 26:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/59) — And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and M… - [Deuteronomy 27:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/22) — Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. - [Joshua 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/13) — And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from d… - [Judges 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/2) — And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister f… - [2 Samuel 13:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/1) — And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. - [2 Samuel 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/2) — And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to h… - [2 Samuel 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/4) — And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tama… - [2 Samuel 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/5) — And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray th… - [2 Samuel 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/6) — So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister… - [2 Samuel 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/11) — And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. - [2 Samuel 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/20) — And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard… - [2 Samuel 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/22) — And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. - [2 Samuel 13:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/32) — And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king… - [2 Samuel 17:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/25) — And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to… - [1 Kings 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/19) — And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the qu… - [1 Kings 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/20) — And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household amon… - [2 Kings 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/2) — But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which… - [1 Chronicles 1:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/1/39) — And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan’s sister. - [1 Chronicles 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/16) — Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. - [1 Chronicles 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/3/9) — These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. - [1 Chronicles 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/3/19) — And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister: - [1 Chronicles 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/3) — And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: - [1 Chronicles 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/19) — And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. - [1 Chronicles 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/15) — And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and… - [1 Chronicles 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/18) — And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. - [1 Chronicles 7:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/30) — The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. - [1 Chronicles 7:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/32) — And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. - [2 Chronicles 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/11) — But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and pu… - [Job 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/4) — And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. - [Job 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/14) — I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. - [Job 42:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/11) — Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread wi… - [Proverbs 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/4) — Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: - [Song of Solomon 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/9) — Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. - [Song of Solomon 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/10) — How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! - [Song of Solomon 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/12) — A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. - [Song of Solomon 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/1) — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have dru… - [Song of Solomon 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/2) — I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: f… - [Song of Solomon 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/8) — We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? - [Jeremiah 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/7) — And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. - [Jeremiah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/8) — And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet h… - [Jeremiah 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/10) — And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. - [Jeremiah 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/18) — Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! o… - [Ezekiel 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/9) — Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. - [Ezekiel 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/23) — And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one h… - [Ezekiel 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/13) — I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a… - [Ezekiel 16:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/45) — Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husba… - [Ezekiel 16:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/46) — And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right ha… - [Ezekiel 16:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/48) — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. - [Ezekiel 16:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/49) — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neit… - [Ezekiel 16:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/51) — Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters… - [Ezekiel 16:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/52) — Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are mo… - [Ezekiel 16:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/55) — When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former… - [Ezekiel 16:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/56) — For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, - [Ezekiel 16:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/61) — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them u… - [Ezekiel 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/11) — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath… - [Ezekiel 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/4) — And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their… - [Ezekiel 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/11) — And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in h… - [Ezekiel 23:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/18) — So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her… - [Ezekiel 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/31) — Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. - [Ezekiel 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/32) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contai… - [Ezekiel 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/33) — Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. - [Ezekiel 44:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/25) — And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for… - [Hosea 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/1) — Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.