38 occurrences

'Brother's' in the Bible

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

Verse ConceptsCryingHuman Blood ShedCries Of Distress To GodWhat Do You Do?RevengeSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainHuman Blood ShedOther References To Mouths

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Verse ConceptsContinentsTwo SonsPeople With Apt Names

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsAbraham

And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Escaping

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

Verse ConceptsSkillViolenceWarfare, Strategies InAbraham, Testing And VictoryBodyguardsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveBorn In One's HouseOvercoming Adversitytraining

And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

Verse ConceptsRestoring ThingsTaking Other People

By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

Verse ConceptsNecksRestlessnessYokesSubjectionServing IndividualsPeople Releasing Othersdominion

And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;

Verse ConceptsA Short TimeAnger SubsidingShort Time For ActionStaying Temporarily

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

Verse ConceptsBrothersLoyaltyMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWidowsBrothers in lawSocial dutiesDutysexSiblingsRaising ChildrenRelationships And DatingWifeSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSemenNot GivingPeople With General KnowledgesexSeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

Verse ConceptsInstruction About ClothesNo Loss

If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentResponsibility, For God's WorldRoadsAnimals Falling

But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.

Verse ConceptsFacesSpittingSaliva

And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentLoneliness And Depression

And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Metaphorical UseNo SurvivorsHanding Over PeopleExtinguishingNames Blotted OutDeath Penalty For Killing

And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

Verse ConceptsWhile Still Speaking

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In Evil

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristInconsistencyA Little BitActing For OneselfEyesHindrancesHypocrisyWorryingFocusdust

You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstClarityExamining YourselfFirst ActionsPlucking OutA Little BitActing For OneselfEyesHypocritesHypocrisyRemoving People From Your Lifecriticismdust

But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

Verse ConceptsRebukeWivesRulers Of A FourthNamed Gentile Rulers

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristEyesdust

How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

Verse ConceptsBeamsBeing FirstHumourAccepting OthersPlucking OutThe Faculty Of SightEyesHypocritesHypocrisy

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatStandingJesus Christ, JudgeNot JudgingDo Not DespiseJudgement SeatBelittlingJudging Others Actionscriticism

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

Verse ConceptsBackbitingCommitment, to God's peopleEvil SpeakingGossipInjurySpeech, Negative Aspects OfObscenitySpeaking, EvilAbraham, New Testament ReferencesSlanderUncharitablenessBackstabbersNot JudgingIf You Do Not Keep CommandsSiblingsFake FriendsBrothers LoveConfidence And Self EsteemSibling Lovecriticismgrandmas

Bible Theasaurus

Brother (439 instances)
Brother's (49 instances)
Comrade (14 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

φιλαδελφία 
Philadelphia 
Usage: 6

אח 
'ach 
Usage: 629

אח 
'ach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

אחוה 
'achavah 
Usage: 1

דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

יבם 
Yabam 
Usage: 3

יבם 
Yabam 
Usage: 2

יבמת 
Y@bemeth 
Usage: 5

ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

G81
ἀδελφότης 
Adelphotes 
Usage: 2

ψευδάδελφος 
Pseudadelphos 
Usage: 2

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