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# רְעוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7468

**fellow** — used 6 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

fellow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7468/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְעוּת: n.f. fellow (-woman) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7468/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fellow (-woman);—sf. in recipr. phr. אִשָּׁה מֵאֵת רְעוּתָהּ Ex 11:2 (E) each from her fellow (‖ אִישׁ מֵאֵת רֵעֵהוּ, cf. ii. רֵעַ 3); cf. Je 9:19; of birds of prey (דַּוּוֹת) Is 34:15 cf. v 16; people under fig. of sheep Zc 11:9; רְעוּתָהּ Est 1:19 = another than she (cf. 1 S 15:28 ii. רֵעַ 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[fem\] (2); companion (2); her fellow (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 34:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/#tree)

שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה וְדָגְרָ֣ה בְצִלָּ֑הּ אַךְ־שָׁ֛ם נִקְבְּצ֥וּ דַיּ֖וֹת אִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* there (to) it.will.make.a.nest arrow.snake\[s\] and it.laid.eggs and it.will.hatch and it.will.gather.a.brood in shadow its surely there they.will.be.gathered red.kites each companion its

*JPS 1917:* There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

[Jeremiah 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.19/#tree)

כִּֽי־שְׁמַ֤עְנָה נָשִׁים֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה וְתִקַּ֥ח אָזְנְכֶ֖ם דְּבַר־פִּ֑יו וְלַמֵּ֤דְנָה בְנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ נֶ֔הִי וְאִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָ֖הּ קִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) hear O.women the.word of.Yahweh and let.it.receive ear your the.word his.mouth his and teach daughters your a.mourning.song and every.woman \[fem\] her.neighbor a.lamentation

*JPS 1917:* Yea, hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7468/): 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).