Thematic Bible: Signifies
Thematic Bible
Brother » Signifies » A companion
You have been very pleasant to me.
Than the love of women.
He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
Now the men took this as an omen, and quickly catching his word said, “Your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he took him up into the chariot.
Brother » Signifies » Mankind
Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Brother » Signifies » A neighbor
“You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.
And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today.
I consulted with myself and contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, “You are exacting usury, each from his brother!” Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.
Brother » Signifies » Any israelite
that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.
Brother » Signifies » A relative,
He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the people.
Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.