Thematic Bible: Signifies
Thematic Bible
Brother » Signifies » A companion
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,'saying , Alas, my brother!
Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
Brother » Signifies » Mankind
And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.
So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Brother » Signifies » A neighbor
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
Brother » Signifies » Any israelite
that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, to wit , of a Jew his brother.
For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Brother » Signifies » A relative,
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.