Word

רֵעָה

rêʻâh · H7464 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

Someone who has kind regard for and is in friendly relationship with another person ((female) companion)

Examples
Judges 11:37 And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; allow me two months, so that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my friends.”
Judges 11:38 Then he said, “Go.” So he let her go for two months; and she left with her friends, and wept on the mountains because of her virginity.
Psalm 45:14 She will be brought to the King in colorful garments; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.

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 2 groups

הּher 2
יmy 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בְּתוּלָהvirgin, young woman 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בָּכָהto cry 1
הָלַךְto go, to walk 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 2 words

חַבָּר chabbâr · H2271 · partner: Both lexemes are genuine companion/fellow words with similar glosses indicating potential near-synonymy.
חֲבֶרֶת chăbereth · H2278 · partner, companion: Both denote a companion or partner.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Friends001001003003: Judges 11:37 and 38 both describe Jephthah's daughter going to weep on the mountains "and my friends," directly attesting the sense of a companion.

Word family 14 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָעָה râʻâh · H7462 · to graze, to pasture, to feed · 91×רֵעַ rêaʻ · H7453 · shouting, loud crying, thunder · 186×רֹעִי rôʻîy · H7473 · to graze, to pasture, to feed · 83×מִרְעֶה mirʻeh · H4829 · pasture land · 13×מִרְעִית mirʻîyth · H4830 · pasture land, flock · 10×מֵרֵעַ mêrêaʻ · H4828 · friend, companion · 9×רַעְיָה raʻyâh · H7474 · (my) friend, (my) love, (my) beloved · 9×רְעוּת rᵉʻûwth · H7468 · to pursue the wind, (female) friend, neighbor · 6×רַעְיוֹן raʻyôwn · H7476 · cogitation, thought · 6×רֵעֶה rêʻeh · H7463 · friend · 3×רֵעָהrêʻâh · H7464רַעְיוֹן raʻyôwn · H7475 · thought, thinking, to pursue the wind · 3×רֵעַ rêaʻ · H7454 · shouting, loud crying, thunder · 2×רְעִי rᵉʻîy · H7471 · pasture land · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7464. reah [רֵעָה] noun feminine companion, attendant; — of maidens, plural suffix…

H7464. reah
[רֵעָה] noun feminine companion, attendant; — of maidens, plural suffix רֵעוֺתָ֑י Jdg 11:37 Qr ( > Kt רעיתי), רֵעוֺתֶיהָ Jdg 11:38; Psa 45:15.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Friends3 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