'Brothers' in the Bible

And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them.

And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.

And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.

And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.

And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.

And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.

And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.

For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.

And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty;

Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;

Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty;

Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;

Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;

Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.

And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan, the son of Kushaiah, were put in position by the Levites;

And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers.

Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.

So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places there before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had to be done before the ark at all times day by day:

And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:

And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests, before the House of the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;

And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.

And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out was Joseph; the second Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve?

The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The fourth Izri, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The seventh Jesharelah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The ninth Mattaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The eleventh Azarel, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twelfth Hashabiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The seventeenth Joshbekashah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The nineteenth Mallothi, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twentieth Eliathah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twenty-second Giddalti, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twenty-third Mahazioth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

The twenty-fourth Romamti-ezer, with his sons and his brothers, twelve.

The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.

All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: Hosah had thirteen sons and brothers.

Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.

And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.

And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.

Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.

Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.

And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael;

Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.