Definition

a friend

Etymology

from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of companionship;

Word family

• רָעָה râʻâh

How the KJV renders it

• companion
• friend

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.