רְעוּתrᵉʻûwth
fellow (-woman) (Exodus 11:2; Jeremiah 9:19; Isaiah 34:15; Isaiah 34:16; Zechariah 11:9)
Pronunciation: reh-ooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7468
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 11:2 Tell all the Israelite men and women to ask their Egyptian neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
- Esther 1:19 “So if it please the king, we suggest that you issue a written decree, a law of the Persians and Medes that cannot be revoked. It should order that Queen Vashti be forever banished from the presence of King Xerxes, and that the king should choose another queen more worthy than she.
- Isaiah 34:15 There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings. And the buzzards will come, each one with its mate.
- Isaiah 34:16 Search the book of the Lord, and see what he will do. Not one of these birds and animals will be missing, and none will lack a mate, for the Lord has promised this. His Spirit will make it all come true.
- Jeremiah 9:20 Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.
- Zechariah 11:9 So I told them, “I won’t be your shepherd any longer. If you die, you die. If you are killed, you are killed. And let those who remain devour each other!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).