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Word Study · Strong's H7453 · Hebrew

רֵעַ

rea

ray'-ah

Strong's 1890 spelling: rêaʻ

an associate (more or less close)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

an associate (more or less close)

Rendered in the KJV as

brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.

  • 188
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 29 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 91
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 188 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 91

  • רֵעֵ֑הוּ17
  • רֵעֵ֖הוּ13
  • רֵעֵ֔הוּ11
  • רֵעֵ֗הוּ9
  • רֵעֵֽהוּ׃9
  • רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙8
  • רֵעֶ֑ךָ7
  • לְרֵעֵ֑הוּ5
  • לְרֵעֵ֔הוּ4
  • רֵעֵ֜הוּ4
  • בְּרֵעֵ֑הוּ3
  • רֵעֵ֥הוּ3

and 79 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 55

  • neighbor his65
  • neighbor your18
  • to neighbor his16
  • friend his6
  • to neighbor your6
  • companion his5
  • friend your5
  • from friend his3
  • from neighbor his3
  • in neighbor his3
  • of neighbor his3
  • on neighbor his3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 27

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular82
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular35
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular21
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • noun · masculine plural5
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3
  • noun · masculine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 82
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 35
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 21
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HNcmpa · 5
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 3
  • HNcmsa · 3
  • HC/Ncmpc/Sp1bs · 2
  • HC/Ncmsa · 2
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 2
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 2
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 2

All 188, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis7 occurrences
Exodus20 occurrences
Leviticus4 occurrences
Deuteronomy21 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges5 occurrences
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel7 occurrences
2 Samuel6 occurrences
1 Kings3 occurrences
2 Kings3 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles2 occurrences
Esther2 occurrences
Job14 occurrences
Psalms8 occurrences
Proverbs33 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Song of Solomon2 occurrences
Isaiah5 occurrences
Jeremiah21 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel6 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zechariah8 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled רֵעַ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).