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Lexicon :: Strong's H251 - 'āḥ

Aa
אָח
Transliteration
'āḥ
Pronunciation
awkh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 62a

Strong’s Definitions

אָח ʼâch, awkh; a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like H1]):—another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 629x

The KJV translates Strong's H251 in the following manner: brethren (332x), brother (269x), another (23x), brotherly (1x), kindred (1x), like (1x), another (1x), other (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 629x
The KJV translates Strong's H251 in the following manner: brethren (332x), brother (269x), another (23x), brotherly (1x), kindred (1x), like (1x), another (1x), other (1x).

  1. brother

    1. brother of same parents

    2. half-brother (same father)

    3. relative, kinship, same tribe

    4. each to the other (reciprocal relationship)

    5. (fig.) of resemblance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָח ʼâch, awkh; a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like H1]):—another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
STRONGS H251: Abbreviations
I. אָח 630 noun masculine brother (Phoenician אח, Arabic أَخ (construct أَخُو etc.), Sabean אחֿ (suffix אחֿיהו) CISiv. 1, 17 and 24 and others, Ethiopic እኀው፡ Assyrian aḫu compare DlW, Aramaic אַח, axoAf ; Palmyreme, Nabataean suffix אחוהי, אחיה); — absolute אָח Genesis 24:29 + (Ezekiel 18:10 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate; Ew Sm אַח; Dl BaEz x defends as＝one compare Assyrian aḫu) never with article; construct אֲחִי Genesis 10:21 +; suffix אָחִי Genesis 4:9 +; אָחִיךָ Genesis 4:9 +; אָחִיו Genesis 4:2 +; אָחִיהוּ Jeremiah 34:9 + 3 times etc.; plural אַחִים Genesis 13:8 +; so read Hosea 13:15 see DeCompl. Var. 23 compare below אָחוּ; construct אֲחֵי Numbers 27:10 +; suffix אַחַי Genesis 19:7 +; אֶחָ֑י 1 Samuel 20:29 + (but 1 Samuel 30:23 Greek Version of the LXX We אַחֲרֵי for אֶחָ֑י את); אַחֶיךָ Genesis 37:13 +; אֶחָיו Genesis 44:14 —
1. brother, born of same mother (& father) Genesis 4:2, 8, 9, 10, 11; Genesis 27:6, 11; Genesis 44:20; Genesis 49:5; compare Genesis 28:2; Genesis 29:10 (twice in verse) + Exodus 4:14 + often; also of half-brother Genesis 20:5, 13, 16 (on pa-rentage compare Genesis 20:12) Genesis 37:2, 4, 5 +, 2 Samuel 13:4, 7, 8 +.
2. indefinite＝relative; Lot, of Abraham Genesis 13:8; Genesis 14:12, 14, 16; Jacob, of Laban Genesis 29:12, 15 (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe Numbers 16:10; Numbers 18:2, 6; 2 Samuel 19:13; of same people Exodus 2:11 (twice in verse); Exodus 4:18; Deuteronomy 15:12; Judges 14:3; Isaiah 66:20; Nehemiah 5:1, 5, 8 see especially Leviticus 19:17 compare Leviticus 19:18 (extended to include sojourner גֵּר Leviticus 19:34); of Israel & Judah 2 Samuel 19:42; Israel & Edom Numbers 20:14; compare of Ishmael Genesis 16:12; Genesis 25:18; of friend 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:13; 1 Kings 20:32, 33 of allies בְּרִית א׳ Amos 1:9.
3. figurative of resemblance Job 30:29 אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים (|| רֵעַ לִבְנוֺת יַעֲנָה i.e. by reason of his crying, compare Di; Proverbs 18:9 מַשְׁחִית לְבַעַל הוּא אָח בִּמְלַאכְתּוֺ מִתְרַפֶּה.
4. in phrase one... another אִישׁ אָחִיו Genesis 9:5; Joel 2:8; Ze Joel 7:10; אִישׁ ֗֗֗ אָחִיו Genesis 13:11 + 25 times + Exodus 32:27 (where also same phrase with רֵעֵהוּ & קְרֹבוֺ — see these words — & also אִישׁ, אֶחָד; for development of idiom compare Deuteronomy 15:2; Isaiah 19:2; Jeremiah 34:14 (compare Jeremiah 34:15) Jeremiah 34:17 Ezekiel 38:21; Haggai 2:22; usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim Exodus 25:20; Exodus 37:9; of scales of crocodile Job 41:9. (H254 אָח fire-pot)
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:2; 4:2; 4:8; 4:9; 4:9; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 9:5; 10:21; 13:8; 13:8; 13:11; 14:12; 14:14; 14:16; 16:12; 19:7; 20:5; 20:12; 20:13; 20:16; 24:29; 25:18; 27:6; 27:11; 28:2; 29:10; 29:12; 29:15; 37:2; 37:4; 37:5; 37:13; 44:14; 44:20; 49:5

Exodus

2:11; 4:14; 4:18; 25:20; 32:27; 37:9

Leviticus

19:17; 19:18; 19:34

Numbers

16:10; 18:2; 18:6; 20:14; 27:10

Deuteronomy

15:2; 15:12

Judges

14:3

1 Samuel

20:29; 30:23

2 Samuel

1:26; 13:4; 13:7; 13:8; 19:13; 19:42

1 Kings

9:13; 20:32; 20:33

Nehemiah

5:1; 5:5; 5:8

Job

30:29; 41:9

Proverbs

18:9

Isaiah

19:2; 66:20

Jeremiah

34:9; 34:14; 34:15; 34:17

Ezekiel

18:10; 38:21

Hosea

13:15

Joel

2:8

Amos

1:9

Haggai

2:22

H251

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Strong's Number H251 matches the Hebrew אָח ('āḥ),
which occurs 630 times in 572 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 12 (Deu 33:24–1Sa 26:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24 - Of Asher he said,
“More blessed than sons is Asher;
May he be favored by his brothers, H251
And may he dip his foot in oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - “Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross before your brothers H251 in battle array, all your valiant warriors, and shall help them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives your brothers H251 rest, as He gives you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to [fn]your own land, and possess [fn]that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - and [fn]spare my father and my mother and my brothers H251 and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our [fn]lives from death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - [fn]unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers H251 and all your father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers H251 and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - “Nevertheless my brethren H251 who went up with me made the heart of the people [fn]melt with fear; but I followed the LORD my God fully.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:17 - Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother H251 of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:4 - They came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the leaders, saying, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” H251 So according to the [fn]command of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - “You have not forsaken your brothers H251 these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - “And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, H251 as He spoke to them; therefore turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:7 - Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers H251 westward beyond the Jordan. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - and said to [fn]them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.” H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, H251 “Come up with me into [fn]the territory allotted me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and [fn]I in turn will go with you into [fn]the territory allotted you.” So Simeon went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, H251 captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, H251 and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - When the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - He said, “They were my brothers, H251 the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s [fn]relatives, H251 and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother’s father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - And his mother’s [fn]relatives H251 spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem; and [fn]they were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our [fn]relative.” H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers H251 the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - but you have risen against my father’s house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your [fn]relative H251—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Then Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer and remained there because of Abimelech his brother. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - so that the violence [fn]done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, H251 who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26 - Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his [fn]relatives, H251 and crossed over into Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - He sent messengers to Abimelech [fn]deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his [fn]relatives H251 have come to Shechem; and behold, they are [fn]stirring up the city against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelech remained at Arumah, but Zebul drove out Gaal and his [fn]relatives H251 so that they could not remain in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56 - Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers H251 and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves [fn]about Jephthah, and they went out with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [fn]relatives, H251 or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she [fn]looks good to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers H251 and all his father’s household came down, took him, brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8 - When they came back to their brothers H251 at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers H251 said to them, “What do you report?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, H251 “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and [fn]household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my fellows, H251 please do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not commit this act of folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - “Now then, deliver up the men, the [fn]worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove this wickedness from Israel.” But the sons of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, H251 the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The sons of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother H251 Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aaron’s son, stood before it to minister in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother H251 Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother H251 Benjamin and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers H251 come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, ‘Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in battle, [fn]nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the [fn]closest relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which belonged to our brother H251 Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - “Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers H251 or from the [fn]court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:3 - and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, H251 the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD at Shiloh, was [fn]wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; H251 and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 - Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers H251 an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers. H251

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - “Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, H251 and bring back [fn]news of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:22 - Then David left his baggage in the [fn]care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. H251

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28 - Now Eliab his oldest brother H251 heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - for he said, ‘Please [fn]let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother H251 has commanded me to attend. And now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ H251 For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers H251 and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, H251 saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

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