רֵעַ
rêaʻ · ray'-ah
a crash (of thunder), noise (of war), shout (of joy)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7321 (רוּעַ);
a crash (of thunder), noise (of war), shout (of joy)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] aloud, noise, shouted.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to see and know
The head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רֵעַ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
3 occurrences · 3 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- as they shouted1 · 33%
- the noise1 · 33%
- out aloud1 · 33%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.