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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 4 / 4 (Jer 34:15–Mal 3:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - “Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming [fn]release to his neighbor H7453, and you had cut a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

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“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor H7453. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - Now it happened that when they heard all the words, they turned in dread one to another H7453 and said to Baruch, “We will surely declare all these words to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 -

“They have repeatedly stumbled;

Indeed, they have fallen one against another H7453.

Then they said, ‘Rise up! And let us return

To our own people and land of our birth

Away from the [fn]sword of the oppressor.’

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Beth

She weeps bitterly in the night,

And her tears are on her cheeks;

She has none to comfort her

Among all her lovers.

All her friends H7453 have dealt treacherously with her;

They have become her enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s H7453 wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:11 - (though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines and defiles his neighbor’s H7453 wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s H7453 wife

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - “One has also done what is an abomination with his neighbor’s H7453 wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:12 - “In you they have taken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors H7453 for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:26 - “You stand on account of your sword, you do abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s H7453 wife. Should you then possess the land?”’

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Then Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a [fn]woman who is loved by her companion H7453 and is an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

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Then each man said to the other H7453, “Come, let us [fn]have the lots fall so we may know on whose account this calamitous evil has struck us.” So they [fn]had the lots fall, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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Do not believe in a neighbor H7453;

Do not have confidence in a close companion.

From her who lies in your bosom

Guard the openings of your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15 -

“Woe to you who make [fn]your neighbors H7453 drink,

Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk

So as to look on their nakedness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:8 - ‘Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends H7453 who are sitting in front of you—indeed they are men who are a wondrous sign, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the [fn]Branch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10 - ‘In that day,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘every one of you will call for his neighbor H7453 to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - ‘For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no [fn]peace because of the adversary, and I set all men one against another H7453.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:16 - ‘These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another H7453; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your [fn]gates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - ‘Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another H7453, and do not love [fn]false oaths; for all these are what I hate,’ declares Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - “For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh; “but behold, I will cause the men to [fn]fall, each into another’s H7453 hand and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will [fn]fall on them; and they will take hold of one another’s H7453 hand, and the hand of one will [fn]go up against the hand of another H7453.

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Then those who [fn]feared Yahweh spoke to one another H7453, and Yahweh gave heed and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who [fn]fear Yahweh and who think upon His name.


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