חֲבַר
chăbar · H2269 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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friend, companion
Person that belongs to a group or class of people
ExamplesDaniel 2:13 So the decree was issued that the wise men be killed; and they looked for Daniel and his friends, to kill them.
Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter,
Daniel 2:18 so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 3
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֲנַנְיָהHananiah 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בְּעָאto ask, to seek 1
- אֲבַדdestroy 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 6 words
- רֵעַ rêaʻ · H7453 · shouting, loud crying, thunder
- Both words denote relational terms for interpersonal association (companion, fellow, friend, neighbor), and are two distinct Hebrew words that overlap in the sense of companion and friend.
- כְּנָת kᵉnâth · H3674 · colleague, associate
- Both lexemes genuinely denote companionship/fellowship—a real same-language near-synonym relationship. חֲבַר (chăbar, H2269) has only 3 occurrences and כְּנָת (kᵉnâth, H3674) only 1, so the evidence is thin but still qualitatively valid.
- מֵרֵעַ mêrêaʻ · H4828 · friend, companion
- Both words denote companions and friends, and are same-language near-synonyms capable of substitution in similar contexts.
- רְעוּת rᵉʻûwth · H7468 · to pursue the wind, (female) friend, neighbor
- Both words denote persons in close social relationships, overlapping in the sense of companion and associate.
- רֵעֶה rêʻeh · H7463 · friend
- Both words refer to social relationship roles, companion or fellow versus friend, which could substitute contextually.
- עָמִית ʻâmîyth · H5997 · neighbor, fellow-citizen
- Both words denote persons in close social relationship, fellow and companion types, and could substitute for one another in appropriate contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Friends001001003003
- Daniel 2:17 recounts that “Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter.”
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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