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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 one proclaiming [fn]release to his neighbor H7453, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 -

“Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release, each one to his brother and each to his neighbor H7453. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares the LORD, ‘to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - When they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one to another H7453. And they said to Baruch, “We will certainly report all these words to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 -

“They have repeatedly stumbled;

Indeed, they have fallen, one against another H7453.

Then they said, ‘Get up, and let’s go back

To our own people and our native land,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 -

She weeps bitterly in the night,

And her tears are on her cheeks;

She has no one 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 Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise 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 Box Eze 18:11

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 Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; he has not defiled his neighbor’s H7453 wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - “And one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s H7453 wife, another has outrageously defiled his daughter-in-law, and another among you has sexually abused his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:12 - “Among you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken [fn]interest, you have injured your neighbors H7453 by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:26

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:1 -

Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love [fn]a woman who is loved by her [fn]husband H7453, yet is committing adultery, as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love [fn]raisin cakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:7 -

And each man said to his mate H7453, “Come, let’s cast lots so that we may [fn]find out on whose account this catastrophe has struck us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 -

Do not trust in a neighbor H7453;

Do not have confidence in a close H7453 friend H7453.

Guard [fn]your lips

From her who lies [fn]in your arms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15 -

“Woe to him who makes his neighbor H7453 drink;

[fn]To you who mix in your venom even to make your neighbors drunk,

So as to look at their genitalia!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10 - ‘On that day,’ declares the LORD of armies, ‘every one of you will invite his neighbor H7453 to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - ‘For before those days there was no wage for man nor any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no [fn]peace because of [fn]his enemies, and I sent all the people against one another H7453.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - “For I will no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will let the people fall, each into another’s H7453 [fn]power and into the [fn]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not rescue them from their [fn]power.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And it will come about on that day that a great panic from the LORD will [fn]fall on them; and they will seize one another’s H7453 hand, and the hand of one will [fn]be raised against the hand of another H7453.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:16 -

Then those who [fn]feared the LORD spoke to one another H7453, and the LORD listened attentively and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who [fn]fear the LORD and esteem His name.


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1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 11:3–Jdg 7:22

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jdg 10:18–Pro 6:3

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Pro 6:29–Jer 31:34

4. Currently on page 4/4 (Jer 34:15–Mal 3:16) Jer 34:15–Mal 3:16

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