רְעוּ
Rᵉʻûw · H7466 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences
Person
- Reufirst named in Genesis 11:186 verses
Meanings
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Reu
Man; son of Peleg; descendant of Shem
ExamplesGenesis 11:18 Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu;
Genesis 11:19 and Peleg lived 209 years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 2
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָלַדto bear 2
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of People003001007
- Genesis 11:18-21 and 1 Chronicles 1:25 both name "Reu" in the Shemite genealogy, as the father of Serug, richly and directly attesting this as a personal name.
- Willing002001002028
- This domain likely reflects this name's own etymological meaning (connected to a root of desire or friendship), though the sampled genealogical citations here (Genesis 11:18-21; 1 Chronicles 1:25) attest only the name itself, not this underlying sense directly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7466. R 'uw רְעוּ proper name, masculine (properly name of a god, DuvalZA vi.126…
'uw רְעוּ proper name, masculine (properly name of a god, DuvalZA vi.126 MezHarrân 23, compare HomA. u. A. ii. 208); — son of Peleg: Gen 11:18-19, Gen 11:20, Gen 11:21(P), 1Ch 1:25; Ραγαυ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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