רֵעַ rea

Hebrew word for “neighbor” · Strong’s H7453 · used 188 times in 173 verses

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Meaning

1) friend, companion, fellow, another person;

How it is translated

Glosses given for rea in context, with how often each is used:

• neighbor 126
• friend 25
• companion 11
• friends 10
• companions 6
• against neighbor 4
• neighbors 2
• fellow-citizen 2
• neighbor masc 1
• like a friend 1

Where it is used

Also in 17 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 22 (7), Deuteronomy 19 (4), Proverbs 25 (4), Proverbs 27 (4), Exodus 21 (3), Leviticus 19 (3), Judges 7 (3), Proverbs 6 (3), Jeremiah 9 (3), Jeremiah 23 (3)

Forms

• רעהו 83
• רעך 21
• לרעהו 20
• ברעהו 10
• לרעך 7
• מרעהו 6
• רעי 5
• רעים 5
• ברעך 4
• רע 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with rea more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 22
• אָח ach “brother” 16
• אֵת et “with” 15
• אָהֵב ahav “to love” 10
• זֶה zeh “this” 14
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 10
• אַל al “not” 11
• דָּבָר davar “word” 14
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 13
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 10
• מוּת mut “to die” 11
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 9

Key verses

The verses using rea that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor…
• Deuteronomy 13:6 — If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly,…
• Job 2:11 — Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the…
• Psalms 12:2 — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
• Ecclesiastes 4:4 — Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Song of Solomon 5:1 — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
• Jeremiah 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?…
• Jeremiah 31:34 — And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto…
• Ezekiel 22:12 — In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast…
• Micah 7:5 — Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
• Zechariah 3:8 — Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the…
• Malachi 3:16 — Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.