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me.re.a H4828

מֵרֵעַ (me.re.a) means “companion” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מֵרֵעַ Hebrew · H4828 7 tagged occurrences in 7 verses

Pronunciation guide: may-ray'-ah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4828

מֵרֵעַ · me.re.a · companion

companion, friend, confidential friend

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of companionship; a friend

KJV glosses: companion, friend.

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How translators render H4828

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
do his friends 1
his adviser 1
his friends 1
men to accompany him 1
to his companion 1
to one of the men who accompanied you 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
and to his friends 1
companions 1
her to his companion 1
her to thy companion 1
him how much more do his friends 1
one of his friends 1
to his companion 1

Verses containing H4828

Page 1 of 1. 7 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 26:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

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  2. Judges 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.

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  3. Judges 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

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  4. Judges 15:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

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  5. Judges 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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  6. 2 Samuel 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!

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  7. Proverbs 19:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

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Sources and text

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