Usually translated as
friend, another, fellow, companion, other, brother, husband, lover, neighbour
Occurrences
Rêaʻ occurs 186 times in 172 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (7), Exodus (18), Leviticus (4), Deuteronomy (16), Joshua (1), Judges (5), Ruth (2), 1 Samuel (6), 2 Samuel (4), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Esther (2), Job (14), Psalms (8), Proverbs (30), Ecclesiastes (1), Song of Songs (2), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (19), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (6), Hosea (1), Jonah (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1), Zechariah (7), Malachi (1)
- Genesis 11:3 — And they said one to another (רֵעֵ֗הוּ), Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Genesis 11:7 — Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s (רֵעֵֽהוּ) speech.
- Genesis 15:10 — And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another (רֵעֵ֑הוּ): but the birds divided he not.
- Genesis 31:49 — And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another (מֵרֵעֵֽהוּ).
- Genesis 38:12 — And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend (רֵעֵ֥הוּ) Hirah the Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:20 — And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend (רֵעֵ֣הוּ) the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
- Genesis 43:33 — And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another (רֵעֵֽהוּ).
- Exodus 2:13 — And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow (רֵעֶֽךָ)?
- Exodus 11:2 — Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his (רֵעֵ֗הוּ) neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
- Exodus 18:7 — And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other (לְרֵעֵ֖הוּ) of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
- Exodus 18:16 — When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another (רֵעֵ֑הוּ), and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
- Exodus 20:16 — Thou shalt not bear false witness against (בְרֵעֲךָ֖) thy neighbour.
- Exodus 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy (רֵעֶ֑ךָ) neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Exodus 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy (רֵעֶ֗ךָ) neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Exodus 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy (לְרֵעֶֽךָ) neighbour’s.
- Exodus 21:14 — But if a man come presumptuously upon his (רֵעֵ֖הוּ) neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- Exodus 21:18 — And if men strive together, and one smite another (רֵעֵ֔הוּ) with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
- Exodus 21:35 — And if one man’s ox hurt another’s (רֵעֵ֖הוּ), that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
- Exodus 22:7 — If a man shall deliver unto his (רֵעֵ֜הוּ) neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
- Exodus 22:8 — If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto (רֵעֵֽהוּ) his neighbour’s goods.
- Exodus 22:9 — For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto (לְרֵעֵֽהוּ) his neighbour.
- Exodus 22:10 — If a man deliver unto his (רֵעֵ֜הוּ) neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
- Exodus 22:11 — Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto (רֵעֵ֑הוּ) his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
- Exodus 22:14 — And if a man borrow ought of his (רֵעֵ֖הוּ) neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
- Exodus 22:26 — If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge (רֵעֶ֑ךָ), thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
- Exodus 32:27 — And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion (רֵעֵ֖הוּ), and every man his neighbour.
- Exodus 33:11 — And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend (רֵעֵ֑הוּ). And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
- Leviticus 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy (רֵֽעֲךָ֖) neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
- Leviticus 19:16 — Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of (רֵעֶ֑ךָ) thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy (לְרֵעֲךָ֖) neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 20:10 — And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his (רֵעֵ֑הוּ) neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 4:42 — That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his (רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙) neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 5:20 — Neither shalt thou bear false witness against (בְרֵֽעֲךָ֖) thy neighbour.
- Deuteronomy 5:21 — Neither shalt thou desire thy (רֵעֶ֑ךָ) neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Deuteronomy 5:21 — Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy (רֵעֶ֗ךָ) neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Deuteronomy 5:21 — Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy (לְרֵעֶֽךָ) neighbour’s.
- Deuteronomy 13:6 — If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend (רֵֽעֲךָ֛), which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
- Deuteronomy 15:2 — And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto (בְּרֵעֵ֑הוּ) his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- Deuteronomy 15:2 — And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of (רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙) his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- Deuteronomy 19:4 — And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his (רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙) neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
- Deuteronomy 19:5 — As when a man goeth into the wood with his (רֵעֵ֥הוּ) neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:5 — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his (רֵעֵ֖הוּ) neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:11 — But if any man hate his (לְרֵעֵ֔הוּ) neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
- Deuteronomy 19:14 — Thou shalt not remove thy (רֵֽעֲךָ֔) neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 22:24 — Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his (רֵעֵ֑הוּ) neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 — But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his (רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙) neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
- Deuteronomy 23:24 — When thou comest into (רֵעֶ֔ךָ) thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 — When thou comest into the standing corn of (רֵעֶ֔ךָ) thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 — When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy (רֵעֶֽךָ) neighbour’s standing corn.
- Deuteronomy 24:10 — When thou dost lend thy brother (בְרֵֽעֲךָ) any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.