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# רֵעֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7463

**friend** — used 3 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/1512/7463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵעֶה: n.m. friend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. friend (cf. Sta§ 184 LagBN 156 Ba§ 12 a);—cstr. in term. techn. רֵעֶה הַמֶּלֶךְ (Ges§ 93 ll Köii. l, 78 f.) 1 K 4:5 (= רֵעַ 1 Ch 27:33), cf. רֵעֶה דָּיִד 2 S 15:37; 16:16; ins. also 15:32 (cf. v 37) 𝔊 We Dr al.; in simple sense Pr 27:10 Kt (Qr רֵעַ; cf. Köl.c.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the friend (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 15:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.37/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֥א חוּשַׁ֛י רֵעֶ֥ה דָוִ֖ד הָעִ֑יר וְאַבְשָׁלֹ֔ם יָבֹ֖א יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.came Hushai the.friend of.David the city and Absalom he.came Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* So Hushai David's friend came into the city; and Absalom was at the point of coming into Jerusalem.

[1 Kings 4:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.5/#tree)

וַעֲזַרְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־נָתָ֖ן עַל־הַנִּצָּבִ֑ים וְזָב֧וּד בֶּן־נָתָ֛ן כֹּהֵ֖ן רֵעֶ֥ה הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and Azariah the.son of.Nathan \[was\].over the overseers and Zabud the.son of.Nathan \[was\].a.priest the.friend of the.king

*JPS 1917:* and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7463.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7463/): 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).