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And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Read in context →I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
mêrêaʻ · may-ray'-ah
a friend
Strong's KJV usage: companion, friend.
Strong's first: Judges 14:20Strong's last: Judges 15:6
Open full H4828 profile →rêaʻ · ray'-ah
an associate (more or less close)
Strong's KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
Strong's first: Exodus 32:27Strong's last: Job 30:29
Open full H7453 profile →châbêr · khaw-bare'
an associate
Strong's KJV usage: companion, fellow, knit together.
Strong's first: Psalms 119:63Strong's last: Proverbs 28:24
Open full H2270 profile →râʻâh · raw-aw'
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Strong's first: Proverbs 13:20Strong's last: Proverbs 28:7
Open full H7462 profile →synkoinōnós · soong-koy-no-nos'
a co-participant
Strong's KJV usage: :--companion, partake(-r, -r with).
Strong's first: Revelation 1:9Strong's last: Revelation 1:9
Open full G4791 profile →chăbereth · khab-eh'-reth
a consort
Strong's KJV usage: companion.
Strong's first: Malachi 2:14Strong's last: Malachi 2:14
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But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
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COMPANION, noun
1. One who keeps company with another; one with whom a person frequently associates, and converses. It differs from friend, says Johnson, as acquaintance from confidence. The word does not necessarily imply friendship; but a companion is often or generally a friend.
A companion of fools shall be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20.
2. One who accompanies another; as two persons meeting casually and traveling together are called companions. So soldiers are called companions in arms.
3. A partner; an associate.
Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier. Philippians 2:25.
4. A fellow; a mate.
5. A sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair case of the cabin in merchant ships. Hence the ladder by which officers ascend to and descend from the quarter deck is called the companion ladder.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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