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# רֵעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7464

**companion** — 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

companion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7464/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵעָה: n.f. companion, attendant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7464/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. companion, attendant;—of maidens, pl. sf. רֵעוֹתָ֑י Ju 11:37 Qr (\> Kt רעיתי), רֵעוֹתֶיהָ v 38 ψ 45:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 45:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.15/#tree)

לִרְקָמוֹת֮ תּוּבַ֪ל לַ֫מֶּ֥לֶךְ בְּתוּל֣וֹת אַ֭חֲרֶיהָ רֵעוֹתֶ֑יהָ מ֖וּבָא֣וֹת לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* to multicolored.material she.is.brought to the king virgins \[are\].behind her companions her.\[female\] \[are.being\].brought to you

*JPS 1917:* She shall be led unto the king on richly woven stuff; the virgins her companions in her train being brought unto thee.

[Judges 11:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.38/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ֔כִי וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח אוֹתָ֖הּ שְׁנֵ֣י חֳדָשִׁ֑ים וַתֵּ֤לֶךְ הִיא֙ וְרֵ֣עוֹתֶ֔יהָ וַתֵּ֥בְךְּ עַל־בְּתוּלֶ֖יהָ עַל־הֶהָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.said go and he.sent.away her two months and she.went she and companions her and she.wept on virginiti(es) her on the mountains

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Go.' And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7464.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7464/): 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).