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Lexicon :: Strong's H7458 - rāʿāḇ

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רָעָב
Transliteration
rāʿāḇ
Pronunciation
raw-awb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2183a

Strong’s Definitions

רָעָב râʻâb, raw-awb'; from H7456; hunger (more or less extensive):—dearth, famine, famished, hunger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x

The KJV translates Strong's H7458 in the following manner: famine (87x), hunger (8x), dearth (5x), famished (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x
The KJV translates Strong's H7458 in the following manner: famine (87x), hunger (8x), dearth (5x), famished (1x).

  1. famine, hunger

    1. famine (in land, nation)

      1. of Jehovah's word (fig)

    2. hunger (of individuals)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָעָב râʻâb, raw-awb'; from H7456; hunger (more or less extensive):—dearth, famine, famished, hunger.
STRONGS H7458: Abbreviations
רָעָב 101 noun masculineGenesis 26:1 famine, hunger; — absolute ר׳ Genesis 12:10 +; suffix רְעָבָם Nehemiah 9:15;
1. famine (in land, nation or city), Genesis 12:10; Genesis 26:1; Genesis 41:30, 31; Exodus 16:3; 2 Samuel 21:1; 2 Samuel 24:13 = 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 6:25 +; שְׁנֵי(הָ)ר׳ Genesis 41:27, 30, 36, שְׁנַת ר׳ Genesis 41:50, but also שָׁנִים ר׳ [שָׁלוֺשׁ] שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13 (on gender see AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 103) = 1 Chronicles 21:12; with חזק (be) severe Genesis 47:56; Genesis 47:57; 1 Kings 18:2; 1Ki 25:3= Jeremiah 52:6, חזק עַל Genesis 47:20; with כָּבֵד Genesis 12:10; Genesis 47:4, 13; גָּדוֺל 2 Kings 6:25; זַלְעֲפוֺת ר׳ Lamentations 5:10; מְזֵי ר׳ Deuteronomy 32:24 + Isaiah 5:13 (see [מָזֶה]), תַּחֲלוּאֵי ר׳ Jeremiah 14:18, חַלֲלֵי ר׳ Lamentations 5:10, אֲסֻפֵי ר׳ Ezekiel 34:29; חִצֵּי הָר׳ Ezekiel 5:16; as scourge of י׳ (+ חֶרֶב, דֶּבֶר, etc.; especially Jeremiah, Ezekiel), Jeremiah 5:12; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 21:7, 9; Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 6:11, 12 +, etc.; figurative of lack of י׳'s word Amos 8:11.
2. hunger, of individual Jeremiah 32:9; Deuteronomy 28:48 (+ צָמָא, etc.), 2 Chronicles 32:11 (+ id.).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:10; 12:10; 12:10; 26:1; 26:1; 41:27; 41:30; 41:30; 41:31; 41:36; 41:50; 47:4; 47:13; 47:20

Exodus

16:3

Deuteronomy

28:48; 32:24

2 Samuel

21:1; 24:13; 24:13

1 Kings

18:2

2 Kings

4:38; 6:25; 6:25

1 Chronicles

21:12

2 Chronicles

32:11

Nehemiah

9:15

Isaiah

5:13

Jeremiah

5:12; 11:22; 14:12; 14:18; 21:7; 21:9; 32:9; 52:6

Lamentations

5:10; 5:10

Ezekiel

5:2; 5:16; 6:11; 6:12; 34:29

Amos

8:11

H7458

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7458 matches the Hebrew רָעָב (rāʿāḇ),
which occurs 101 times in 88 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:10–Jer 15:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - And the famine was grievous in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - And it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man went from Bethlehem-Judah, to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we say, Let us enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we abide here, we shall die. And now come, let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they put us to death, we shall but die.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - And Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Rise up and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for Jehovah has called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the land for seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - If evil come upon us, sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, and we stand before this house and before thee -- for thy name is in this house -- and cry unto thee in our distress, then thou wilt hear and save.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - And there were that said, We have had to pledge our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, that we might procure corn in the dearth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 - To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 - And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee? -- desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - They have denied Jehovah, and say, He is not; and evil shall not come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - -- therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them: for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; for I will give you assured peace in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, and who say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword; and there shall be none to bury them, them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters; and I will pour their wickedness upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 - If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:2 - And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

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