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Psalms 35:14

“I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

רֵעַrêaʻ · ray'-ah
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: כְּ — preposition
רֵֽעַ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HR/Ncmsa
Usage: Occurs 189 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 11:3 Genesis 11:7 Genesis 15:10 Genesis 31:49 Genesis 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.

Verse 13 Verse 15

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.