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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7453 matches the Hebrew רֵעַ (rēaʿ),
which occurs 189 times in 173 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jdg 10:18–Pro 6:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - And the people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another H7453, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 -

So she lay at his feet until morning and rose before one could recognize another H7453; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:7 -

Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning the right of redemption and the exchange of land to establish any matter: a man removed his sandal and gave it to another H7453; and this was the manner of attestation in Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - Now it happened that all who knew him previously saw, and behold, he was prophesying with the prophets, so the people said to one another H7453, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20 - Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow H7453, and there was very great confusion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - So Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor H7453, who is better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the young man was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his [fn]face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed each other H7453 and wept together H7453, but David wept more.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:17 - “So Yahweh has done [fn]accordingly as He spoke by my hand, for Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor H7453, to David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 -

Then David came to Ziklag and sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends H7453, saying, “Behold, a [fn]gift for you from the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - And each one of them seized his [fn]opponent H7453 by the head and thrust his sword in his [fn]opponent’s H7453 side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called [fn]Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives from before your sight and give them to your companion H7453, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:3 - But Amnon had a friend H7453 whose name was Jonadab, the son of [fn]Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very [fn]shrewd man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:17 - And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your lovingkindness to your friend H7453? Why did you not go with your friend H7453?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 -

“If a man sins against his neighbor H7453 and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:11 - Now it happened when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck down all the household of Baasha; he did not leave [fn]a single male—not even any of his kinsman redeemers or his friends H7453.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 -

Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to [fn]another H7453 by the word of Yahweh, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have struck down one another H7453. So now, Moab, to the spoil!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 -

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another H7453, “Why do we sit here until we die?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 -

Then they said to one another H7453, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will [fn]overtake us. So now, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 -

Ahithophel was counselor to the king;

and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend H7453.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 -

“If a man sins against his neighbor H7453 and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Indeed, the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to devote them to destruction and to utterly eradicate them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to bring one another H7453 to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a [fn]holiday for gladness and feasting and sending portions of food to one another H7453.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - because on those days the Jews obtained rest for themselves from their enemies, and it was a month which was turned around for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a [fn]holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness and sending portions of food to one another H7453 and gifts to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 -

Then Job’s three friends H7453 heard of all this calamity that had come upon him. So they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to console him and comfort him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 -

“For the despairing man lovingkindness should be from his friend H7453;

But he forsakes the [fn]fear of the Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 -

“You would even cast lots for the orphans

And bargain over your friend H7453.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:4 -

“I am a laughingstock to [fn]my friends H7453,

The one who called on God and He answered him;

The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 -

“My friends H7453 are my scoffers;

My eye [fn]weeps to God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 -

“O that a man might argue with God

As a man with his neighbor H7453!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:5 -

“He who informs against friends H7453 for a share of the spoil,

The eyes of his children also will come to an end.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 -

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends H7453,

For the hand of God has smitten me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 -

“I have become a brother to jackals

And a companion H7453 of ostriches.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 -

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,

Or I have lied in wait at my neighbor’s H7453 doorway,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - And his anger burned against his three friends H7453 because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:4 -

“I will respond to you,

And your friends H7453 with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 -

Now it happened after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and against your two friends H7453 because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 -

And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends H7453, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 -

They speak worthlessness to one another H7453;

With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:3 -

He does not slander [fn]with his tongue,

Nor does evil to his neighbor H7453,

Nor takes up a reproach against his friend H7453;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 -

Do not drag me away with the wicked

And with workers of iniquity,

Who speak peace with their neighbors H7453,

While evil is in their hearts.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14 -

I walked about as though it were my friend H7453 or brother;

I bowed down [fn]mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:11 -

My [fn]loved ones and my friends H7453 stand aloof from my plague;

And my kinsmen stand afar off.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 -

You have removed lover and friend H7453 far from me;

My acquaintances are in darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:5 -

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor H7453, him I will [fn]destroy;

Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not endure.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:8 -

For the sake of my brothers and my friends H7453,

I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:28 -

Do not say to your neighbor H7453, “Go, and come back,

And tomorrow I will give it,”

When it is there with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 -

Do not devise [fn]harm against your neighbor H7453,

While he lives securely beside you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 -

My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor H7453,

Have struck your [fn]hands in pledge for a stranger,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 -

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;

Since you have come into the [fn]hand of your neighbor H7453,

Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor H7453.


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