Lexicon
רְעוּת
re.ut
H7468
H:N-F Hebrew

neighbor

6
Occurrences
5
Books
Hebrew
Language

re.ut identifies a person as another’s neighbor or counterpart, including paired and reciprocal relationships.

The attested use identifies a person in relation to another: someone from whom an Israelite asks valuables, a matching member of a pair, or the other person in a reciprocal action. The construct singular form is used throughout; in Esther 1:19 and Jeremiah 9:19, the APB’s loose wording does not isolate its specific contribution as clearly.

Senses in use

  1. A person in relation to another · dominant

    The construct feminine singular form marks a relational counterpart. In Exodus 11:2 the APB renders each man and woman asking “his neighbor” or “her neighbor”; in Isaiah 34:15 and Isaiah 34:16 it presents creatures or women in matching pairs, “each with its neighbor” and “no woman is missing her neighbor.” In Zechariah 11:9 the reciprocal clause is rendered “one another's flesh”; Esther 1:19 presents the royal position being given to “another,” while Jeremiah 9:19 does not make the term’s contribution identifiable in the APB wording.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “neighbor” in Exodus 11:2 and Isaiah 34:15-16, and expresses a reciprocal relation through “one another's” in Zechariah 11:9. In Esther 1:19 it uses “another,” while Jeremiah 9:19 gives no clearly isolable English rendering.

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