22 occurrences

'Sister' in the Bible

Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”

Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Didn’t he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words—“The man said this to me!”—he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:Our sister, may you becomethousands upon ten thousands.May your offspring possessthe gates of their enemies.

Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.

Jacob’s other sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

But they answered, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman.Timna was Lotan’s sister.

Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malchiel.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחות 
'achowth 
Usage: 114

דּודה 
Dowdah 
Usage: 3

יבמת 
Y@bemeth 
Usage: 5

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ἀδελφή 
Adelphe 
Usage: 18

ἀνέψιος 
Anepsios 
Usage: 1

Μαρία Μαριάμ 
Maria 
Mary the mother of Jesus , Mary Magdalene , Mary the sister of Martha , Mary the mother of James , Mary the mother of John Mark , Mary of Rome
Usage: 52

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