Fellow
חֲבַרStrong’s H2270chavar (cha-var)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “associates its”, “companion” and “united”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.”
Meaning
- Associate, companion, friend, comrade, fellow
How it's translated
- associates its 3
- a companion 2
- united 1
- more than companions your 1
- companion his 1
- companions your 1
- companions 1
- and companions of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Song of Solomon 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Judges 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
- Psalms 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
- Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
- Ecclesiastes 4:10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
- Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
- Song of Solomon 8:13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲבַר chavar · fellow
associate, companion, friend, comrade, fellow Aramaic of cha.ver (חָבֵר "companion" H2270)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fellow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FEL'LOW, noun
[Heb. to tie or connect, to be joined or associated.]
- A companion; an associate.
- One of the same kind.
- An equal.“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow saith Jehovah of hosts” Zechariah 13:7
- One of a pair, or of two things used together and suited to each other.
All definitions and other forms of “fellow”
- One equal or like another.
- An appellation of contempt; a man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble man; as a mean fellow
- A member of a college that shares its revenues; or a member of any incorporated society.
- A member of a corporation; a trustee.
FEL'LOW, verb transitive
To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.