Strong's #4828: merea` (pronounced may-ray'-ah)

from 7462 in the sense of companionship; a friend:--companion, friend.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mêrêa‛

1) companion, friend, confidential friend

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H7462 in the sense of companionship

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Genesis 26:26: "to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army."
Judges 14:11: "when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with"
Judges 14:20: "But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."
Judges 15:2: "I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger"
Judges 15:6: "his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father"
2 Samuel 3:8: "to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David,"
Proverbs 19:7: "of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth"