Neighbor
רֵעַStrong’s H7453rea (re-a)
Appears in 173 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rea is the Hebrew word usually translated “neighbor his”, “neighbor your” and “friend his”. It appears in 173 verses of the Old Testament.
“Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.”
Meaning
- Friend, companion, fellow, another personfriend, intimate · fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) · other, another (reciprocal phrase)
How it's translated
- neighbor his 74
- neighbor your 19
- to neighbor his 12
- friend his 7
- to neighbor your 7
- companion his 5
- friend your 5
- from neighbor his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 30
- Jeremiah 20
- Exodus 18
- Deuteronomy 16
- Job 14
- Psalms 8
29 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 3:10In contextIn that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
- Zechariah 8:10In contextFor before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
- Zechariah 8:16In contextThese are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
- Zechariah 8:17In contextAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
- Zechariah 11:6In contextFor I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
- Zechariah 14:13In contextAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
All 173 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
רֵעַ rea · neighbor
1) friend, companion, fellow, another person 1a) friend, intimate 1b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) 1c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)
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.