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# רַעְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7474

**companion** — 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

companion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7474/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַעְיָה: n.f. companion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7474/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. companion;—of beloved bride, sf. רַעְיָתִי Ct 1:9, 15; 2:2, 10, 13; 4:1, 7; 5:2; 6:4; so of attendant maidens Ju 11:37 Kt, but v. foregoing.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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: my friend (7); friend (2).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.9/#tree)

לְסֻסָתִי֙ בְּרִכְבֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה דִּמִּיתִ֖יךְ רַעְיָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* to mare my among the.chariots of.Pharaoh I liken.you my.friend my

*JPS 1917:* I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

[Song of Songs 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.7/#tree)

כֻּלָּ֤ךְ יָפָה֙ רַעְיָתִ֔י וּמ֖וּם אֵ֥ין בָּֽךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* of.you all \[is\].beautiful my.friend my and blemish there.\[is\].not in you

*JPS 1917:* Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7474/): 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).