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Lexicon :: Strong's H7453 - rēaʿ

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רֵעַ
Transliteration
rēaʿ
Pronunciation
ray'-ah
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2186a

Strong’s Definitions

רֵעַ rêaʻ, ray'-ah; or רֵיעַ rêyaʻ; from H7462; an associate (more or less close):—brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 188x

The KJV translates Strong's H7453 in the following manner: neighbour (102x), friend (42x), another (23x), fellow (10x), companion (5x), other (2x), brother (1x), husband (1x), lovers (1x), neighbour (with H1121) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 188x
The KJV translates Strong's H7453 in the following manner: neighbour (102x), friend (42x), another (23x), fellow (10x), companion (5x), other (2x), brother (1x), husband (1x), lovers (1x), neighbour (with H1121) (1x).

  1. friend, companion, fellow, another person

    1. friend, intimate

    2. fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense)

    3. other, another (reciprocal phrase)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רֵעַ rêaʻ, ray'-ah; or רֵיעַ rêyaʻ; from H7462; an associate (more or less close):—brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
STRONGS H7453: Abbreviations
II. רֵעַ 187 noun masculineProverbs 17:17 friend, companion, fellow; — ר׳ absolute 2 Samuel 13:3 +, construct 1 Chronicles 27:33; suffix רֵעִי Job 31:9 +, רֵעְַךָ Deuteronomy 5:17 +, רֵעֶ֑ךָ Exodus 2:13 +, also רֵעֶיךָ 2 Samuel 12:11 (singular; Ges§ 93 ss), רֵעֵ֫הוּ (Ges§ 84 a i) Genesis 11:3 114 times, רֵעוֺ Jeremiah 6:21, רֵעָהּ, Jeremiah 3:30 [Jeremiah 3:20] ; plural רֵעִים Jeremiah 3:1 +, construct רֵעֵי Job 2:11; suffix רֵעָיו Job 32:3, רֵעֵ֫הו (Ges§ 91 k) Job 42:10; 1 Samuel 30:26, etc.; —
l. friend, intimate, Genesis 38:12, 20(J), 1 Samuel 30:26; 2 Samuel 13:3; 1 Kings 16:11 (Greek Version of the LXX omitted); רִעֲךָ אֲשֶׁר כְּנַפְשְׁךָ Deuteronomy 13:7, מֶתֶק רֵעֵהוּ Proverbs 27:9 (text dubious see Toy); Micah 7:5 (|| אַלוּף), Jeremiah 9:3 (|| אָח), Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 1:2)+ אֹהֲבֶיהָ), Psalm 35:14 (|| אָח) + 3 times Psalms; especially Job 2:11; Job 6:14 + 8 times Job; Proverbs 17:17; Proverbs 18:24 + 8 times Proverbs)Proverbs 12:26 see מֵרֵעַ below), Songs 5:1 (|| דּוֺדִים); associates Zechariah 3:8; technical term הַמֶּלֶךְ ר׳ 1 Chronicles 27:33 (see רֵעֶה), compare 2 Samuel 16:17 (twice in verse); of lover Songs 5:16 (|| דּוֺדִי), husband Jeremiah 3:20, paramours Hosea 3:1; Jeremiah 3:1; metaphor רֵעַ לִבְנוֺת יַעֲנָה Job 30:29 (|| אָח לְתַנִּים).
2. in weaker sense, fellow, fellow-citizen, even another person, with whom one stands in reciprocal relations, Exodus 2:13; Exodus 20:16, 17 (3 times in verse) (Gi Exodus 20:13; Exodus 20:14; Exodus 20:14; Exodus 20:14) = Deuteronomy 5:17, 18 (3 times in verse), Exodus 21:14; Exodus 22:7; Exodus 22:8; Exodus 22:10; Exodus 22:25 (all E), Leviticus 19:13, 16, 18; Leviticus 20:10 (all H), Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 15:2 (twice in verse) + 11 times Deuteronomy; Joshua 20:5 (D), Judges 7:14; Jeremiah 9:7; Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 29:23; Ezekiel 18:6, 11, 15; Ezekiel 22:11, 12; Habakkuk 2:15; Job 16:21; Ruth 4:7; Psalm 15:3; Psalm 28:3; Psalm 101:5; Proverbs 3:28, 29; Proverbs 6:1 (|| זָר !) + 18 times Proverbs; וְרֵעוֺ שָׁכֵן Jeremiah 6:21; 1 Samuel 15:28 hath given (the kingdom) to thy fellow, = another than thou, so 1 Samuel 28:17; 2 Samuel 12:11; so also אִישׁ ֗֗֗ רֵעֵהוּ a (given, certain) man over against his fellow (different from 3) Exodus 21:18, 35; Exodus 22:6; Exodus 22:9; Exodus 22:13; Exodus 33:11 (all E), Deuteronomy 19:11; Deuteronomy 22:26; Judges 7:13; 1 Kings 8:31; 1 Kings 20:35; Jeremiah 7:5; 1 Chronicles 6:22; Ruth 3:14; Ecclesiastes 4:4; similarly שָׂעִיר אֶלרֵֿעֵהוּ Isaiah 34:14.
3. in reciprocal phrase אִישׁ ֗֗֗ רֵעֵהו Genesis 11:3 they said one to another (אִישׁ distributive), each the speech of the other Genesis 11:7, absent one from the other Genesis 31:49, compare Genesis 43:33 (all J), Exodus 11:2; Exodus 18:7, 16; Exodus 32:27 (all E), Judges 6:29; Judges 7:22; Judges 10:18; 2 Samuel 2:16 (twice in verse) + 4 times 1 Samuel; 2 Kings 3:23; 2 Kings 7:3, 9; 2 Chronicles 20:23; Isaiah 3:5 (|| אִישׁ בְּאִישׁ), Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 19:2 (|| אִישׁ בְּאָתִיו) Isaiah 41:6; Jeremiah 5:8 + 11 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 33:26; Zechariah 3:10 + 6 times Zechariah (Zechariah 11:6 read רֹעֵהוּ StaZAW i (1881), 26); Malachi 3:16; Jonah 1:7; so of things Genesis 15:10 (J). — I. רֵעַ see רוע.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:3; 11:3; 11:7; 15:10; 31:49; 38:12; 38:20; 43:33

Exodus

2:13; 2:13; 11:2; 18:7; 18:16; 20:13; 20:14; 20:14; 20:14; 20:16; 20:17; 21:14; 21:18; 21:35; 22:6; 22:7; 22:8; 22:9; 22:10; 22:13; 22:25; 32:27; 33:11

Leviticus

19:13; 19:16; 19:18; 20:10

Deuteronomy

4:42; 5:17; 5:17; 5:18; 13:7; 15:2; 19:11; 22:26

Joshua

20:5

Judges

6:29; 7:13; 7:14; 7:22; 10:18

Ruth

3:14; 4:7

1 Samuel

15:28; 28:17; 30:26; 30:26

2 Samuel

2:16; 12:11; 12:11; 13:3; 13:3; 16:17

1 Kings

8:31; 16:11; 20:35

2 Kings

3:23; 7:3; 7:9

1 Chronicles

6:22; 27:33; 27:33

2 Chronicles

20:23

Job

2:11; 2:11; 6:14; 16:21; 30:29; 31:9; 32:3; 42:10

Psalms

15:3; 28:3; 35:14; 101:5

Proverbs

3:28; 3:29; 6:1; 12:26; 17:17; 17:17; 18:24; 27:9

Ecclesiastes

4:4

Song of Songs

5:1; 5:16

Isaiah

3:5; 13:8; 19:2; 34:14; 41:6

Jeremiah

3:1; 3:1; 3:20; 3:20; 5:8; 6:21; 6:21; 7:5; 9:3; 9:7; 19:9; 22:13; 29:23

Lamentations

1:2

Ezekiel

18:6; 18:11; 18:15; 22:11; 22:12; 33:26

Hosea

3:1

Jonah

1:7

Micah

7:5

Habakkuk

2:15

Zechariah

3:8; 3:10; 11:6

Malachi

3:16

H7453

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Strong's Number H7453 matches the Hebrew רֵעַ (rēaʿ),
which occurs 188 times in 173 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jdg 10:18–Pro 6:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:7 - Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20 - Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap[fn] and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:17 - The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 - When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim,[fn] which is at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:3 - But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:17 - And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:11 - When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 - And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, “Strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 - Now there were four men who were lepers[fn] at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 - Ahithophel was the king’s counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 - “He who withholds[fn] kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 - You would even cast lots over the fatherless,
and bargain over your friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:4 - I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called to God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - that he would argue the case of a man with God,
as[fn] a son of man does with his neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:5 - He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—
the eyes of his children will fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,
and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:4 - I will answer you
and your friends with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 - And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:3 - who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - Do not drag me off with the wicked,
with the workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while evil is in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14 - I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I bowed down in mourning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:11 - My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 - You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 101:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:5 - Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly
I will destroy.
Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not endure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:8 - For my brothers and companions’ sake
I will say, “Peace be within you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:28 - Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not plan evil against your neighbor,
who dwells trustingly beside you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 - My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,[fn] and plead urgently with your neighbor.

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