Strong's Hebrew · H7468

H7468 rᵉʻûwth

רְעוּת

reh-ooth'

neighbor

rᵉʻûwth appears 6 times in Scripture, in Exodus, Esther, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Zechariah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a female associate; generally an additional one

In the King James Version

another, mate, neighbour.

Derivation

from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of H7453 (רֵעַ);

Appears 6 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 9:20

“Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.”

Zechariah 11:9

“Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.””

Exodus 11:2

“Now announce to the people that men and women alike should ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.””

Esther 1:19

“So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.”

Isaiah 34:16

“Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.”

Isaiah 34:15

“There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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