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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 - There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Mitzrayim to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. Yitzchak went to Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim, to Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Mitzrayim. The famine will consume the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:31

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Mitzrayim; that the land not perish through the famine."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - To Yosef were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera Kohen of On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Mitzrayim there was bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - The famine was over all the surface of the eretz. Yosef opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Mitzrim. The famine was severe in the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - All countries came into Mitzrayim, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - The sons of Yisra'el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Kana`an.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - The famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They said to Par`oh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Kana`an. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Mitzrayim and the land of Kana`an fainted by reason of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Yosef bought all the land of Mitzrayim for Par`oh, for the Mitzrim sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Par`oh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - and the children of Yisra'el said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Mitzrayim, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah went to sojourn in the country of Mo'av, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, It is for Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Giv`onim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth 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 stew for the sons of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - There was a great famine in Shomron: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Aram: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that 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 - either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Yisra'el. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, arbeh or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; 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 on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house,) and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he will redeem you from death; 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, To keep them alive in famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 - He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people have go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will 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 burnt offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured shalom in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 - If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the Kohen go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:2 - It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD: 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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