מֵרֵעַ mêrêaʻ

Hebrew · Strong's H4828 · pronounced may-ray'-ah · used 7 times in 7 verses

Meaning

a friend

In the King James Version: companion, friend.

Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of companionship;

Genesis 26:26 Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
Judges 14:11 And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.
Judges 14:20 and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
Judges 15:2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
Judges 15:6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
2 Samuel 3:8 Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.