Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H7453 - rēaʿ

Choose a new font size and typeface
רֵעַ
Transliteration
rēaʿ
Pronunciation
ray'-ah
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 11:3–Jdg 7:22)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - It was also called Mizpah,[fn] because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 - Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:33 - The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:13 - The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16 - Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist[fn] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - “If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must[fn] determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person’s property.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:9 - In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, ‘This is mine,’ both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.[fn] The one whom the judges declare[fn] guilty must pay back double to the other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - “If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the LORD that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person’s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - “ ‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “ ‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:16 - “ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - “ ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:10 - “ ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the LORD’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:24 - If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:25 - If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:10 - When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:24 - “Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:5 - If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/4 (Gen 11:3–Jdg 7:22) 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. LOAD PAGE 4 Jer 34:15–Mal 3:16

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan