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# אַחֲוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H264

**brotherhood** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

brotherhood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/264/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַחֲוָה: n.f. brotherhood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/264/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brotherhood הָא׳ Zc 11:14 (between Judah & Israel).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: brotherhood (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.14/#tree)

וָֽאֶגְדַּע֙ אֶת־מַקְלִ֣י הַשֵּׁנִ֔י אֵ֖ת הַחֹֽבְלִ֑ים לְהָפֵר֙ אֶת־הָֽאַחֲוָ֔ה בֵּ֥ין יְהוּדָ֖ה וּבֵ֥ין יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.cut.up (et) staff my (the) second (et) (the) Union to break (et) the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel

*JPS 1917:* Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/264.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/264/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).