re.a H7453

רֵעַ (re.a) means “neighbor” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

רֵעַ Hebrew · H7453 188 tagged occurrences in 173 verses

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

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7453

רֵעַ · re.a · neighbor

1) friend, companion, fellow, another person 1a) friend, intimate 1b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) 1c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or רֵיעַ; from H7462 (רָעָה); an associate (more or less close)

KJV glosses: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.

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How translators render H7453

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
another	22
his neighbor	22
his neighbors	11
your neighbors	9
his friend	6
your neighbor	6
against his neighbor	5
friends	5
against your neighbor	4
your friend	4
of his neighbor	3
other	3
the other	3
to his neighbor	3
against neighbor	2
and friends	2
anothers	2
belongs to your neighbor	2
by his neighbor	2
for his neighbor	2
friend	2
from his neighbor	2
his friends	2
my friends	2
one another	2
to your neighbor	2
a companion	1
a friend	1
against one another	1
and another	1
and for his neighbor	1
and his friend	1
and my friend	1
and to your friends	1
and your companions	1
another mans	1
as for my friend	1
by another	1
by his friend	1
else	1
for a friend	1
for your neighbor	1
from each other	1
had a friend	1
her friends	1
her husband	1
his companion	1
his friend hirah	1
his opponent	1
in friendship	1
in your neighbors	1
into his opponents	1
into your neighbors	1
is a friend	1
is my friend	1
it to your neighbor	1
lovers	1
my neighbors	1
o friends	1
of a friend	1
of another	1
of his friend	1
of many companions	1
of their neighbors	1
of your neighbor	1
on a friend	1
or friend	1
their neighbors	1
to another	1
to his friends	1
to his neighbors	1
to my friends	1
to the other party	1
until another	1
when your neighbor	1
who makes his countrymen	1
with his neighbor	1
with your neighbor	1
you take your neighbors	1
your closest friend	1
your companion	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his neighbour	17
to another	9
to his neighbour	9
of his neighbour	8
thy neighbours	8
against his neighbour	7
another	6
friends	6
his neighbours	6
unto his neighbour	5
against thy neighbour	4
of his friend	4
a friend	2
anothers	2
at another	2
friend	2
from his neighbour	2
his friend	2
my friend	2
of thy neighbour	2
thy neighbour	2
to his fellow	2
unto his neighbours	2
upon his neighbour	2
with his neighbour	2
with his neighbours	2
after his neighbours	1
against his fellow	1
all her friends	1
and a companion	1
and another	1
and companions	1
and every neighbour	1
and friend	1
and his fellow	1
and his friend	1
and his neighbour	1
and my friends	1
and other	1
at my neighbours	1
but his neighbour	1
by his neighbour	1
companion	1
departeth from her husband	1
even of his own neighbour	1
for his friends	1
for his neighbour	1
for thy friend	1
for your friend	1
from another	1
from his friend	1
from thy neighbours	1
had a friend	1
he and his friend	1
his companion	1
his fellow	1
in his fellows	1
into his neighbours	1
into thy neighbours	1
it to a neighbour	1
it to thy neighbour	1
lovers	1
my friends	1
nor of his friends	1
not unto thy neighbour	1
o friends	1
of a mans friend	1
of thy friend	1
of thy neighbours	1
or thy friend	1
other	1
than his neighbour	1
thee and thy companions	1
thereof when thy neighbour	1
thine own friend	1
thou and thy fellows	1
thou not with thy friend	1
thou thy fellow	1
thy brother	1
thy friend	1
to his friends	1
to his neighbours	1
to their neighbours	1
to thy friend	1
unto him that giveth his neighbour	1
unto his fellow	1
unto his friend	1
unto thy neighbour	1
unto thy neighbours	1
upon another	1
upon me o ye my friends	1
useth his neighbours	1
was against his fellow	1
with another	1
with their neighbours	1
with thy neighbour	1
ye not in a friend	1

Verses containing H7453

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Genesis 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
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Genesis 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
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Genesis 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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Genesis 31:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
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Genesis 38:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
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Genesis 38:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
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Genesis 43:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.
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Exodus 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
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Exodus 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now announce to the people that men and women alike should ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
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Exodus 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
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Exodus 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
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Exodus 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Exodus 20:17 · BSB · 3 occurrences
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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Exodus 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
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Exodus 21:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
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Exodus 21:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.
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Exodus 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
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Source alternate reference: 22.6
Exodus 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.
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Source alternate reference: 22.7
Exodus 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.
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Source alternate reference: 22.8
Exodus 22:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching,
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Source alternate reference: 22.9
Exodus 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.
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Source alternate reference: 22.10
Exodus 22:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.
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Source alternate reference: 22.13
Exodus 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
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Source alternate reference: 22.25
Exodus 32:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
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Exodus 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
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Leviticus 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
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Leviticus 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
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Leviticus 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
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Leviticus 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 4:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
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Deuteronomy 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 5:21 · BSB · 3 occurrences
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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Deuteronomy 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
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Source alternate reference: 13.7
Deuteronomy 15:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
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Deuteronomy 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
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Deuteronomy 19:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
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Deuteronomy 19:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
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Deuteronomy 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
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Deuteronomy 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
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Deuteronomy 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
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Deuteronomy 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
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Source alternate reference: 23.25
Deuteronomy 23:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
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Source alternate reference: 23.26
Deuteronomy 24:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
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Deuteronomy 27:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
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Deuteronomy 27:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
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Joshua 20:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
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Judges 6:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
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Judges 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
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Judges 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
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Judges 7:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
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