H4828 - מֵרֵעַ (mêrêaʻ)

H4828 מֵרֵעַ (mêrêaʻ) may-ray'-ah

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

companion

Strong's Definition

a friend

Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of companionship;

KJV Usage: companion, friend.

TWOT Reference: 2186f

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) companion, friend, confidential friend

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5384

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

companion, friend, confidential friend

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מֵרֵעַ mêrêa‛ BDB Definition: 1) companion, friend, confidential friend Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7462 in the sense of companionship Same Word by TWOT Number: 2186f Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

26:26

14:11 14:20 15:2 15:6

3:8

19:7

Genesis 26:26

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

Judges 14:11

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

Judges 14:20

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

Judges 15:2

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.

Judges 15:6

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.

2 Samuel 3:8

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!

Proverbs 19:7

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.