Dictionaries :: Rei

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Rei:

friendly, one who maintained true allegiance to king David (1Ki 1:8) when Adonijah rebelled.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Rei:

my shepherd; my companion; my friend

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Rei:

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 (1Ki 1:8). The name is very uncertain. Winckler (Geschichte, II, 247) identifies him with Ira, the Jairite, who was a "priest to David" (2Sa 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 2Sa 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.

Written by Horace J. Wolf

Nave's Topical Bible

Rei: An Israelite

Who remained loyal to David at the time of the usurpation of Adonijah,

1Ki 1:8.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Rei:

(friendly) a person mentioned (in 1 Kings 1:8 only) as having remained firm to David's cause when Adonijah rebelled. (B.C. 1015)