רֵעַ
re.a
“neighbor”
Definition
an associate (more or less close)
or רֵיעַ; from H7462 (רָעָה);
- friend, companion, fellow, another person 1a) friend, intimate 1b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) 1c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רֵעַ appears 157 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Ahithophel was the king’s counselor.Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian;brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor,city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lipswill have the king for a friend.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.