chaver · companion, united

What it means

chaver (חָבֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “companion, united”.

Companion, joined to others; "united" as a single group.

How to say it

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. Someone who goes with another and shares his lot; also together, as one.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• companions ×8
• companion ×3
• united ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×3

• Judges 20:11

  So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.

• Psalms 45:7

  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore Elohim, your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of joy beyond your companions.

• Psalms 119:63

  A companion I am of all who fear you, and of those who keep your precepts.

• Proverbs 28:24

  Whoever robs his father and his mother and says, “It is no transgression,” he is a companion of a man who destroys.

• Ecclesiastes 4:10

  For if they fall, the one will lift up his companion; but woe to him, the one who falls and there is no second to lift him up!

• Song of Songs 1:7

  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

• Song of Songs 8:13

  You who dwell in the gardens, companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are stubborn and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and chases after rewards. The orphan they do not judge the case of, and the cause of the widow does not come before them.

• Isaiah 44:11

  Look, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen, they are from among human beings; let them gather, all of them, let them stand up; they will be in dread, they will be put to shame together.

• Ezekiel 37:16

  “And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; and take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

• Ezekiel 37:19

  say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and I will make them into one stick, and they will be one in my hand.’

And 1 more times.