neighbor
re.a denotes another person in one’s social sphere, especially one whose welfare, rights, or property are involved, and sometimes a friend.
The term most often identifies another person in relation to social obligations, injury, property, testimony, or exchange; the same relational noun can also designate a named associate or friends. In the supplied verses, its reference may be the person addressed or affected in a reciprocal action, rather than only a nearby resident.
Senses in use
-
A fellow person in legal and social dealings · dominant
The singular construct forms regularly mark the person affected by an act or obligation. In Deuteronomy 5:21 the APB renders prohibitions concerning “your neighbor's wife,” house, field, servants, and possessions; in Deuteronomy 19:5 it renders the person accidentally struck while two men chop wood as “his neighbor.” The same relation appears in testimony, loans, exchange, and confrontation: Exodus 20:16 renders “against your neighbor,” Deuteronomy 15:2 speaks of releasing a loan, and Esther 9:22 describes sending portions “each to his neighbor.”
-
A close associate or friend · occasional
The term can name a personal associate rather than a person defined by a legal obligation. In 2 Samuel 13:3 the singular absolute form identifies Jonadab in relation to Amnon, and the APB calls him “a friend”; in Job 16:20 and Job 19:21 plural forms occur in Job’s appeals concerning his “friends” or “neighbors.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “neighbor” in legal, property, and interpersonal clauses, while some personal contexts are rendered “friend” or “friends.” These English variations are treated as verse-level presentations rather than fixed equivalents.