רֵעַ
rêaʻ · ray'-ah
an associate (more or less close)
Lexicon
Derivation: or רֵיעַ; from H7462 (רָעָה);
an associate (more or less close)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.
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
188 occurrences · 188 OT · 0 NT · 91 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- his neighbour17 · 16%
- to another9 · 9%
- to his neighbour8 · 8%
- against his neighbour7 · 7%
- thy neighbour's6 · 6%
- another6 · 6%
- his neighbour's6 · 6%
- of his neighbour6 · 6%
- of his friend4 · 4%
- friends4 · 4%
- unto his neighbour4 · 4%
- against thy neighbour4 · 4%
- upon his neighbour2 · 2%
- at another2 · 2%
- with his neighbour2 · 2%
- from his neighbour2 · 2%
- unto his neighbour's2 · 2%
- with his neighbour's2 · 2%
- of thy neighbour2 · 2%
- thy neighbour2 · 2%
- another's2 · 2%
- to his fellow2 · 2%
- thou thy fellow1 · 1%
- he and his friend1 · 1%
- from another1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
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.