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Rei
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re'-i (my shepherd, my companion, my friend, friendly)
RELATED: David, Shimei |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
friendly, One who maintained true allegiance to king
David ( 1
Kings 1:8 ) when Adonijah rebelled.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
my shepherd; my companion; my friend
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(friendly) A person mentioned (in ( 1
Kings 1:8 ) only) as having remained firm to David's cause when Adonijah rebelled.
(B.C. 1015.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
re'-i (re'i, "friendly"; Rhesei):
Rei, Shimei and the Gibborim who belonged to David are listed among those who
did not join Adonijah in his attempt on the throne (1
Kings 1:8). The name is very uncertain. Winckler (Geschichte, II, 247) identifies
him with Ira, the Jairite, who was a "priest to David" (2
Samuel 20:26 the Revised Version margin); he tries to prove that this Ira
(or Jair) was a priest of Bethlehem. Stade (GVI, I, 293, note 1) holds that Shimei
and Rei were two officers of David's bodyguard. Josephus (Ant., VII, xiv, 4) has
ho Daouidou philos, thus making Shimei a "friend," the courtier of 2
Samuel 15:37; 16:16,
and omitting Rei entirely. This would call for an original reading re'h ha-melekh,
or re'eh ha-melekh, and is too wide a variant from the Massoretic Text. Assuming
that Rei belongs in the text, it is safe to conjecture that he was an officer
of the royal guard.
Horace J. Wolf
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