Lexicon :: Strong's H7453 - rēaʿ

The rulers[fn] of Gilead said to one another, “Which man will begin the fight against the Ammonites? He will be the leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

So she lay down at his feet until morning but got up while it was still dark.[fn] Then Boaz said, “Don’t let it be known that a[fn] woman came to the threshing floor.”

At an earlier period in Israel, a man removed his sandal and gave it to the other party in order to make any matter legally binding concerning the right of redemption or the exchange of property. This was the method of legally binding a transaction in Israel.

Everyone who knew him previously and saw him prophesy with the prophets asked each other, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? ”

Saul and all the troops with him assembled and marched to the battle, and there the Philistines were, fighting against each other in great confusion!

Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingship of Israel away from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

When the servant had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell facedown to the ground, and paid homage three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.

“The LORD has done[fn] exactly what he said through me: The LORD has torn the kingship out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David.

When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side so that they all died together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is named Field of Blades.[fn]

“This is what the LORD says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another[fn] before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight.[fn]

Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, a son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

“Is this your loyalty to your friend? ” Absalom asked Hushai. “Why didn’t you go with your friend? ”

When a man sins against his neighbor

and is forced to take an oath,[fn]

and he comes to take an oath

before your altar in this temple,

When he became king, as soon as he was seated on his throne, Zimri struck down the entire house of Baasha. He did not leave a single male,[fn] including his kinsmen and his friends.

One of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow prophet by the word of the LORD, “Strike me! ” But the man refused to strike him.

“This is blood! ” they exclaimed. “The kings have crossed swords[fn] and their men have killed one another. So, to the spoil, Moab! ”

Now four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the city gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?

Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

If a man sins against his neighbor

and is forced to take an oath[fn]

and he comes to take an oath

before your altar in this temple,

The Ammonites and Moabites turned against the inhabitants of Mount Seir and completely annihilated them. When they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped destroy each other.

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

Now when Job’s three friends ​— ​Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ​— ​heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,[fn]

even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

I am a laughingstock to my[fn] friends,

by calling on God, who answers me.[fn]

The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

My friends scoff at me

as I weep before God.

If a man denounces his friends for a price,

the eyes of his children will fail.

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,

for God’s hand has struck me.

I have become a brother to jackals

and a companion of ostriches.

If my heart has gone astray over a woman

or I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.[fn]

I will answer you

and your friends with you.

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

They lie to one another;

they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

who does not slander with his tongue,

who does not harm his friend

or discredit his neighbor,

Do not drag me away with the wicked,

with the evildoers,

who speak in friendly ways with their neighbors

while malice is in their hearts.

I went about mourning as if for my friend or brother;

I was bowed down with grief,

like one mourning for a mother.

My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,

and my relatives stand at a distance.

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;

darkness is my only friend.[fn]

I will destroy anyone

who secretly slanders his neighbor;

I cannot tolerate anyone

with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

Because of my brothers and friends,

I will say, “May peace be in you.”[fn]

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go away! Come back later.

I’ll give it tomorrow” ​— ​when it is there with you.

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[fn]

or entered into an agreement with[fn] a stranger,