Neighbor
עָמִיתStrong’s H5997amit (a-mit)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amit is the Hebrew word usually translated “fellow citizen your”, “fellow citizen his” and “on fellow citizen his”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.”
Meaning
- Relation, neighbour, associate, fellow
How it's translated
- fellow citizen your 5
- fellow citizen his 3
- with fellow citizen his 1
- on fellow citizen his 1
- to fellow citizen your 1
- community my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Leviticus 18:20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
- Leviticus 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- Leviticus 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
- Leviticus 19:17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
- Leviticus 24:19And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
Hebrew dictionary
עָמִית amit · neighbor
relation, neighbour, associate, fellow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “neighbor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEIGHBOR, noun
- One who lives near another.
- One who lives in familiarity with another; a word of civility.
- An intimate; a confidant.
- A fellow being.
All definitions
- One of the human race; any one that needs our help, or to whom we have an opportunity of doing good.
- A country that is near.
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.