Companion
מֵרֵעַStrong’s H4828merea (me-re-a)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Merea is the Hebrew word usually translated “companion his”, “friend his” and “close friend his”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.”
Meaning
- Companion, friend, confidential friend
How it's translated
- to companion his 2
- friend his 2
- close friend his 1
- companions 1
- to companion your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 14:11And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
- Judges 14:20But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
- Judges 15:2And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
- Judges 15:6Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- 2 Samuel 3:8Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
- Proverbs 19:7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵרֵעַ merea · companion
companion, friend, confidential friend
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “companion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPANION, noun
- One who keeps company with another; one with whom a person frequently associates, and converses.“A companion of fools shall be destroyed” Proverbs 13:20
- One who accompanies another; as two persons meeting casually and traveling together are called companions.
- A partner; an associate.
- A fellow; a mate.
All definitions
- A sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair case of the cabin in merchant ships.
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.