rea · neighbor, friend

What it means

rea (רֵעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “neighbor, friend”.

The other person one deals with: companion, neighbor, friend; in the laws, "neighbor". "One to another" is "a man to his neighbor".

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. The person living near, anyone one deals with.
2. A companion, a friend.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The other person one deals with: companion, neighbor, friend. BDB: an associate, more or less close. In the laws it is “the neighbor”.

• “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Leviticus 19:18
• The neighbor in the laws Exodus 20:16Deuteronomy 19:14
• The neighbor in Proverbs Proverbs 3:29Proverbs 27:14
• Companion: “Each helps his companion” Isaiah 41:6
• “One another” Genesis 11:31 Samuel 20:41

How we translate it

“Neighbor” 106 times, “neighbors” 3, “companion” 36, “companions” 16, “friend” 12, “one another” 7… In the laws and in Proverbs, “neighbor”; in the narratives, “companion” or “friend”; the expression אִישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵהוּ, literally “a man to his neighbor”, becomes “to one another” or “each … his companion”.

How it is translated

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

• neighbor ×106
• companion ×36
• companions ×16
• friend ×12
• one another ×7
• another ×3
• neighbors ×3
• other ×3
• fellow ×1
• friends ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Exodus×20
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×21
• Joshua×1
• Judges×5
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×2
• Job×14
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×33
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×21
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×8
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 11:3

  They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.

• Genesis 11:7

  Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that no one will understand the language of his neighbor.”

• Genesis 15:10

  He brought him all these and cut them in two down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut in two.

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “May YHWH watch between me and you when we are hidden each of us from the other.

• Genesis 38:12

  Many days passed, and the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:20

  Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he did not find her.

• Genesis 43:33

  They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked in amazement at one another.

• Exodus 2:13

  He went out the next day, and look, two Hebrew men were fighting. And he said to the wicked one, “Why are you striking your companion?”

• Exodus 11:2

  Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.”

• Exodus 18:7

  Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him; they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent.

• Exodus 18:16

  When they have a matter, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of Elohim and his instructions.”

• Exodus 20:16

  You shall not testify against your neighbor as a false witness.

• Exodus 20:17

  You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

• Exodus 21:14

  But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you shall take him from my altar to die.

• Exodus 21:18

  When men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

• Exodus 21:35

  When a man's ox hurts the ox of his neighbor and it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide its silver, and the dead ox they shall also divide.

• Exodus 22:7

  When a man gives his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

• Exodus 22:8

  If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to Elohim to declare that he has not put his hand to the goods of his neighbor.

• Exodus 22:9

  In every case of transgression, whether for an ox, for a donkey, for a lamb, for a garment, or for any lost thing of which someone says, ‘This is it,’ the case of the two of them shall come before Elohim; the one whom Elohim declares guilty shall repay double to his neighbor.

• Exodus 22:10

  When a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a lamb or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, with no one seeing,

• Exodus 22:11

  an oath of YHWH shall be between the two of them that he has not put his hand to the goods of his neighbor; its owner shall accept it, and he shall not repay.

• Exodus 22:14

  When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely repay.

• Exodus 22:26

  If you ever take in pledge the cloak of your neighbor, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

• Exodus 32:27

  And he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, Elohim of Israel: ‘Each man, put his sword on his side; pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each man, his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his relative.’”

• Exodus 33:11

  And YHWH would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his companion. Then he would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from inside the tent.

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• Leviticus 19:16

  You shall not go about slandering among your people. You shall not stand idly by over the blood of your neighbor. I am YHWH.

• Leviticus 19:18

  You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not bear a grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am YHWH.

• Leviticus 20:10

  And a man who commits adultery with the wife of a man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, shall surely be put to death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  for the manslayer to flee there, who kills his neighbor unknowingly, and he did not hate him previously, so that by fleeing to one of these cities he may live:

• Deuteronomy 5:20

  Nor shall you give vain testimony against your neighbor.

• Deuteronomy 5:21

  Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male slave, or his female slave, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your companion who is like your own soul incites you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known, you or your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release the loan of his hand that he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not press his neighbor or his brother, because a release to YHWH has been proclaimed.

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: whoever strikes his neighbor without knowing it, and he did not hate him previously,

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,

• Deuteronomy 19:11

  But if there is a man who hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him and rises against him and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

• Deuteronomy 19:14

  You shall not move the boundary of your neighbor, which the first generations have set in your inheritance that you will inherit in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 22:24

  then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 22:26

  But to the young woman you shall not do anything; the young woman has no sin deserving death, for as when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case,

And 148 more times.