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Grow With Me

עָמִית

amit · neighbor, fellow

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5997 · appears 12 times in the Bible

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What it means

amit (עָמִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “neighbor, fellow”.

Neighbor, companion: a fellow member of the people with whom one deals.

How to say it

a·mit

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The person one deals with.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • neighbor ×10
  • one another ×2

Where it appears

  • Leviticus 6:2

    “When a person sins and commits unfaithfulness against YHWH by lying to his neighbor about a deposit or a pledge or a robbery, or has exploited his neighbor,

  • Leviticus 18:20

    And you shall not lie with the wife of your neighbor to emit semen, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Leviticus 19:11

    You shall not steal, and you shall not lie, and you shall not deceive one another.

  • Leviticus 19:15

    You shall not do injustice in judgment: you shall not show favor to the poor and you shall not honor the great; in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

  • Leviticus 19:17

    You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin because of him.

  • Leviticus 24:19

    And if a man inflicts a defect on his neighbor, as he has done, so it shall be done to him:

  • Leviticus 25:14

    And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from the hand of your neighbor, you shall not take advantage of one another.

  • Leviticus 25:15

    According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor; according to the number of years of harvests he shall sell to you.

  • Leviticus 25:17

    And you shall not take advantage of one another, but you shall fear your Elohim; for I am YHWH your Elohim.

  • Zechariah 13:7

    Sword, awake against my shepherd, and against the man who is my neighbor, declares YHWH Tsevaot. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

And 2 more times.