Original Language Studio
Proverbs 27:10
“Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7453 · Hebrew
- Definition
- an associate (more or less close)
- Derivation
- or רֵיעַ; from H7462 (רָעָה);
- KJV renderings
- brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.
- Grammar
- רֵֽעֲ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- ךָ֨ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 189 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 11:3Genesis 11:7Genesis 15:10Genesis 31:49Genesis 38:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רֵעַ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.