עָמִית
neighbor
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5997 appears — 10 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 9 verses
- Leviticus 6:2 בַּ/עֲמִית֜/וֹ עֲמִיתֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
- Leviticus 18:20 עֲמִֽיתְ/ךָ֔ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
- Leviticus 19:11 בַּ/עֲמִיתֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
- Leviticus 19:15 עֲמִיתֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
- Leviticus 19:17 עֲמִיתֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
- Leviticus 24:19 בַּ/עֲמִית֑/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
- Leviticus 25:14 לַ/עֲמִיתֶ֔/ךָ עֲמִיתֶ֑/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
- Leviticus 25:15 עֲמִיתֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
- Leviticus 25:17 עֲמִית֔/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, עמית (ʻâmîyth) means “neighbor.” Its uses cluster heavily in Leviticus (90% of all occurrences). Spanning 10 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Leviticus 6:2. The King James Version usually renders it “neighbour,” while modern versions prefer “neighbor” (Berean Standard Bible) and “fellow citizen” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5997 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 90%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Neighbour 7×, Another 2×
- American Standard Version: Neighbor 9×, Another 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Neighbor 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fellow citizen 8×, Fellow 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5997 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5997 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5997 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5997 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- relation, neighbour, associate, fellow
Word origin
[ עָמִית ] n.m. associate, fellow, relation (perh. orig. f. abstr. association )
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from a primitive root meaning to associate
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָמִית
- , v. עֲמָם) nationality, community; (sub. איש) m. country-man, associate, fellow. Shebu. 30ᵃ (expl. עמיתך, Lev. XIX, 15) עַם שֶׁאִתְּךָ וכ׳ the people joined to thee in the Law and in duties. Ib. עולא חבירנו ע׳ וכ׳ ‘Ula, our friend, fellowman in the Law &c. e.g. Leviticus 19:15
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H5997 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲמִיתֶ֑/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:14 | 2 |
| בַּ/עֲמִית֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 24:19 | 1 |
| בַּ/עֲמִית֜/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 6:2 | 1 |
| בַּ/עֲמִיתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 19:11 | 1 |
| לַ/עֲמִיתֶ֔/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:14 | 1 |
| עֲמִֽיתְ/ךָ֔ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 18:20 | 1 |
| עֲמִית֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 25:17 | 1 |
| עֲמִיתִ֔/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Zechariah 13:7 | 1 |
| עֲמִיתֶ֔/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 19:17 | 1 |
| עֲמִיתֶֽ/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 19:15 | 1 |
| עֲמִיתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 6:2 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
