Darling
רַעְיָהStrong’s H7474rayah (ra-yah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rayah is the Hebrew word usually translated “o friend my” and “friend my”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.”
Meaning
- Attendant maidens, companion
How it's translated
- o friend my 7
- friend my 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 9
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 1:15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
- Song of Solomon 2:2As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
- Song of Solomon 2:10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
- Song of Solomon 2:13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
- Song of Solomon 4:1Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
- Song of Solomon 4:7Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Hebrew dictionary
רַעְיָה rayah · darling
attendant maidens, companion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “darling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ARLING, adjective
Dearly beloved; favorite; regarded with great kindness and tenderness; as a darling child; a darling science.
All definitions and other forms of “darling”
D'ARLING, noun
One much beloved; a favorite; as, that son was the darling of his father.
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.