Word

עָמִית

ʻâmîyth · H5997 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

neighbor, fellow-citizen

A fellow member of a community, which implies that one has certain responsibilities with regard to that person and owes them a certain amount of loyalty

Examples
Leviticus 6:2 “When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and disavows the rightful claim of his neighbor regarding a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or regarding robbery, or he has extorted from his neighbor,
Leviticus 18:20 ‘And you shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.
Leviticus 19:15 ‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the poor nor give preference to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

How it’s used In 4 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

12 occurrences in 3 groups

ךָyour 6
הוּhis 5
יmy 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

יָכַחto rebuke, to reprove 1
יָנָהto oppress 1
עָשַׁקto practice extortion 1
שָׁפַטto judge, to govern 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 5
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

גֶּבֶרman 1
יָדhand, power 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 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

רַעְיָה raʻyâh · H7474 · (my) friend, (my) love, (my) beloved: Both words denote a companion, fellow or associate. רַעְיָה (raʻyâh, H7474) also carries the sense of "love," which gives it a somewhat wider range.
חָבֵר châbêr · H2270 · fellow, friend, partner: Both words denote persons in close association or relationship, in the range of companion, fellow and associate, and "fellow" appears among the renderings of both.
מַכָּר makkâr · H4378 · acquaintance: Both words denote persons with whom one has social connection or proximity, acquaintance being close to fellow or neighbor in the sense of social nearness.
מֵרֵעַ mêrêaʻ · H4828 · friend, companion: Both words denote persons in close relation to one another (companion or friend, fellow or neighbour).
אָח ʼâch · H251 · brother, half-brother, cousin: אָח ("brother"), which in certain contexts extends to "another, other," and the target word ("fellow, neighbor"), which likewise denotes a close associate or "another" within one's group, overlap in these extended senses of relational peer or associate.
רֵעֶה rêʻeh · H7463 · friend: Both words denote persons in close social relationship (fellow or neighbor, and friend) and could substitute in contexts describing companionship or social nearness.

In the other Testament 1 word

πλησίον plēsíon · G4139 · quite near, nearby, neighbor: Greek πλησίον renders Hebrew עָמִית in LXX contexts denoting 'neighbor/fellow' relationships, establishing direct cross-linguistic equivalence for this relational social term across both Testaments.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Friends001001003003: עָמִית denotes a fellow or associate, as in Leviticus 19:11's "do not deceive one another" and Leviticus 25:17's instructions concerning wronging "one another."

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5997. amith [עָמִית] noun masculineLev 18:20 associate, fellow, relation (perhaps…

H5997. amith
[עָמִית] noun masculineLev 18:20 associate, fellow, relation (perhaps originally feminine abstract association, compare מֶּחָה); — always suffix: עֲמִיתִי גֶּבֶר Zec 13:7 a man (who is) my fellow; elsewhere only Leviticus: עֲמִיתוֺ Zechariah 5:21 (twice in verse); reciprocal בַּעֲמִיתוֺ אִישׁ Zech 19:11; Zech 24:19, cf . Zech 25:17; עֲמִיתְךָ Zech 18:20, עֲמִיתֶ֑ךָ Zech 19:15; Zech 19:17; Zech 25:14 (twice in verse); Zech 25:15.
עַמִּיאֵל and similar proper names see below I. עמם.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Friends12 occurrences

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