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ˀḥh, ˀḥtˀ ([ˀ]ḥā/[ˀ]ḥāṯ, [ˀ]ḥāṯā) n.f. sister
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sister
Common Aramaic
TAD A2.3 R.1↗ שלם בית נבו אל אחתי רעיה מן אחכי מכבנת‏ ; PAT2776:1.1↗ lh wlˀ{d}<ḥ>th wlbnwhy wlbnth wlbny bnwhy lˁlmˀ ; PTMaSh 55.b:53[2]↗ לאחתיה הוא חכם‏ : he has carnal knowledge of his sister ; PTYev 2.d:4[2]↗ גבר ובריה נסבין תרתין אחוון‏ : a man and his son who are married to two sisters ; Hom1 2.2:9↗ ܦܝܬܘܚܝ ܠܝ ܚܬܝ ܟܠܬܐ‏ : open up for me my sister the bride ; EphFid 82:5.5↗ ܐܝܬ ܠܟܝ ܐ̈ܚܐ ܐܦ ܐܚ̈ܘܬܐ‏ ; P Gn12:19↗ ܘܠܡܢܐ ܐܡ݂ܪܬ ܕܚܬܝ ܗܝ‏ ; BT BM 84a(45)↗ אתיא אחתיה‏ : his sister came ; Anan 104:5↗ כל אחוותיהי‏ : all of his sisters ; ATS 1.1:742↗ lahan ulahuatan : for our brothers and our sisters
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אחה דאם : maternal aunt
Gal, PTA
PalLaws2(1) 65:3↗ אחתיה דאמה‏ ; TN Lev18:13↗ עריתה דאחתה"דחתא" דאמך לא תבזי‏ : you should not uncover the nakedness of your maternal aunt
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kinswoman
PTA
TN Deut15:12↗ ארום יזדבן לך אחוכון עבריה או אחתכון עברייתה‏ : should your Hebrew kinsman or Hebrew kinswoman be sold to you
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fig. : something similar, something cognate
Syr
EphFid 20:13.4↗ ܐܦ ܠܐ ܪܡܙܐ ܙܥܘܪܐ ܡܨܝܐ ܐܝܟ ܕܠܡܓܢܒ ܥܝܢܐ ܡܢ ܚܬܗ݀‏ : nor is a small wink something able, as it were, to steal one eye from the other
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in the early church: a female missionary or the like
Syr
ICor9:5↗ ܚܵܬ݂ܵܐ ܐܲܢܼܬ݁ܬ݂ܵܐ ܠܡܲܟ݂ܪܵܟ݂ܘ݂ ܥܲܡܲܢ‏
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CPA, Syr. ܚܐ܂ ܚܐܬܐ‏; pl. ˀaḥwān, ˀaḥwāṯ⁠even in those dialects that lose the initial syllable in the singular; JLAtg abs. and var. for "my sister" : אְַחָת (and 1 time for absolute!); CPA emph./suff. usually without initial aleph.
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For PAT2776 see PAT 335.
As with the masculine form, whether familial relationship is always the case in the earlier texts is not clear; nor, of course, is the difference between actual sister and kinswoman always clear to us.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 503[10]DJPA: 46aDJBA: 106aJastrow: 42Drower/Macuch: 8b, 128aPayne-Smith: 111J. Payne-Smith: 163Levy Ch-W: 1:18Tal Sam: 18DCPA[Schulthess]: 11[5]Qumran: 6

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