Genesis 38:12
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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Friend
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James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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14 occurrences in 12 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Exodus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
2 Samuel
54 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Proverbs
1412 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
22 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Matthew
44 verses
Luke
65 verses
John
33 verses
Acts
11 verses
James
22 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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.
רֵעַ
rêaʻ · ray'-ah
28 times translated as this KJV form187 total Strong's occurrences
an associate (more or less close)
Strong's KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 38:12Strong's last: Micah 7:5
Open full H7453 profile →φίλος
phílos · fee'-los
12 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
actively, fond, i.e. friendly (still as a noun, an associate, neighbor, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--friend.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 11:19Strong's last: James 4:4
Open full G5384 profile →אָהַב
ʼâhab · aw-hab'
4 times translated as this KJV form208 total Strong's occurrences
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
Strong's KJV usage: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 20:7Strong's last: Isaiah 41:8
Open full H157 profile →ἑταῖρος
hetaîros · het-ah'-ee-ros
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a comrade
Strong's KJV usage: :--fellow, friend.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 20:13Strong's last: Matthew 26:50
Open full G2083 profile →רֵעֶה
rêʻeh · ray-eh'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a (male) companion
Strong's KJV usage: friend.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 15:37Strong's last: 1 Kings 4:5
Open full H7463 profile →πείθω
peíthō · pi'-tho
1 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences
to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty)
Strong's KJV usage: :--agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 12:20Strong's last: Acts 12:20
Open full G3982 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Psalms 41:9Strong's last: Psalms 41:9
Open full H376 profile →רָעָה
râʻâh · raw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 14:20Strong's last: Judges 14:20
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H7453
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
H7453
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
H7453
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
H7453
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
H7453
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
H157
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
H7453
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
H7453
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
H157
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
H7453
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
H7453
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
H7453
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
H7453
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
friend
FRIEND, noun frend.
1. One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity; opposed to foe or enemy.
A friend loveth at all times. Proverbs 17:17.
2. One not hostile; opposed to an enemy in war.
3. One reconciled after enmity. Let us be friends again.
4. An attendant; a companion.
5. A favorer; one who is propitious; as a friend to commerce; a friend to poetry; a friend to charitable institution.
6. A favorite. Hushai was David's friend
7. A term of salutation; a familiar compellation.
FRIEND, how camest thou in hither? Matthew 22:12.
So Christ calls Judas his friend though a traitor.
Mat 26.
8. Formerly, a paramour.
9. A friend at court, one who has sufficient interest to serve another.
FRIEND, verb transitive frend. To favor; to countenance; to befriend; to support or aid. [But we now use befriend.]
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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