merea · friend, adviser

What it means

merea (מֵרֵעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “friend, adviser”.

Trusted friend, adviser.

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. A companion or trusted friend, with whom things are shared.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• companion ×3
• companions ×3
• friend ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• Proverbs×1

• Genesis 26:26

  Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the commander of his army.

• Judges 14:11

  And it happened, when they saw him, that they took thirty companions, and they were with him.

• Judges 14:20

  And the wife of Samson became the wife of his companion, who had been a companion to him.

• Judges 15:2

  And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Let her be yours, please, instead of her.”

• Judges 15:6

  And the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

• 2 Samuel 3:8

  Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I am doing loyal love with the house of Saul your father, with his brothers and with his companions, and I have not handed you over into the hand of David; and you call me to account today for the iniquity of the woman?

• Proverbs 19:7

  All the brothers of a poor man hate him; how much more do his companions go far from him! He pursues words; they are not there.