# H7453 רֵעַ

רֵעַ (rêaʻ), Strong’s H7453: an associate (more or less close) KJV: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.. Occurs 187 times.

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*rêaʻ* — an associate (more or less close)

KJV: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.

Derived from [רָעָה râʻâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7462) (to tend a flock)

Occurs 187 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רֵעַ 187 n.m. friend, companion, fellow

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=3) — They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…
- [Genesis 11:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=7) — Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- [Genesis 15:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=10) — He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide…
- [Genesis 31:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=49) — and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
- [Genesis 38:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=12) — After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to…
- [Genesis 38:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=20) — Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but…
- [Genesis 43:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=33) — They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men…
- [Exodus 2:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=13) — He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did…
- [Exodus 11:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/11?v=2) — Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of…
- [Exodus 18:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=7) — Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they…