Companion

"friend; companion." This noun is also represented in Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Aramaic. Rea‘ appears 187 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, and it has …

Famine

"famine; hunger." This word appears about 101 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew. Ra‘ab means "hunger" as opposed to "thirst": "Therefore sha…

Friend

"friend; companion; fellow." This noun appears about 187 times in the Bible. The word refers to a "friend" in 2Sa 13:3: "But Amnon had a friend, whose…

Sin

"iniquity; vanity; sorrow." Some scholars believe that this term has cognates in the Arabic words 'ana, ("to be fatigued, tired") and 'aynun ("weaknes…