TBESH · H4828
מֵרֵעַ · me.re.a · companion
companion, friend, confidential friend
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מֵרֵעַ (me.re.a) means “companion” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: may-ray'-ah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מֵרֵעַ · me.re.a · companion
companion, friend, confidential friend
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from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of companionship; a friend
KJV glosses: companion, friend.
Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
Read word by wordAnd when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.
Read word by wordand his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordAbner 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!
Read word by wordAll 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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