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# מֵרֵעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4828

**friend** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

friend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4828/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵרֵעַ²: n.m. friend, companion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4828/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. friend, companion (strange formation; orig. dub.; Wetzst Syriac Dreschtafel, ZEthnol. 1873, 289 cp. مرياع miryâʿ, name of bell-wether among Syriac nomads (proposes \[inseparable\] companion), and der. from ריע, proposes closely joined; cf. Gerber 97, 162);—sf. מֵרֵעֵ֫הוּ Gn 26:26 +, מְרֵעֵ֫הוּ Pr 19:7, מֵרֵעֶ֑ךָ Ju 15:2; pl. מֵרֵעִים 14:11;—companion, confidential friend, Gn 26:26 (J; cf. רֵעֶה); of bridegroom’s escort Ju 14:11; ‘bestman’ (GFM) v 20; 15:2, 6; more gen. friends (‖ אחים) 2 S 3:8 Pr 19:7; 12:26 is dub., Död Hi De al. מִרְעֵהוּ; Toy conj. poss. מֵרָעָה (יָסֻר), v. further תור.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: friend (3); friend\[s\] (2); his close (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.4/#tree)

ה֗וֹן יֹ֭סִיף רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝דָ֗ל מֵרֵ֥עהוּיִפָּרֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* wealth it.adds friends many and a.poor.\[person\] friend his.close he.is.separated

*JPS 1917:* Wealth addeth many friends; but as for the poor, his friend separateth himself from him.

[Job 6:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.14/#tree)

לַמָּ֣ס מֵרֵעֵ֣הוּ חָ֑סֶד וְיִרְאַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י יַעֲזֽוֹב׃

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to.(the) despairing \[person\] friend his.close loyalty and the.fear of.\[the\].Almighty he.will.forsake

*JPS 1917:* To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4828.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4828/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).