מֵרֵעַmêrêaʻ/may-ray'-ah/
HebrewH48287 occurrences (KJV)
a friend
KJV renders it: companion, friend.
Where it appears
- Gen 26:26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
- Judg 14:11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
- Judg 14:20But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
- Judg 15:2Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.”
- Judg 15:6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
- 2 Sam 3:8Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
- Prov 19:7All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.