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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

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

Page 2 / 2 (Jer 16:4–Amo 8:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; H7458 and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, H7458 and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, H7458 into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - And I will send the sword, the famine, H7458 and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, H7458 and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, H7458 and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, H7458 and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, H7458 and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; H7458 and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger H7458 in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16 - Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, H7458 whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: H7458 they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: H7458 and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. H7458

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, H7458 until there be an end of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine H7458 was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger H7458 in the top of every street.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: H7458 for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. H7458

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine H7458 shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:16 - When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, H7458 which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine H7458 upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - So will I send upon you famine H7458 and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, H7458 and by the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: H7458 thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine H7458 within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine H7458 and pestilence shall devour him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, H7458 and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine H7458 upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, H7458 and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger H7458 in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine H7458 upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine H7458 among the heathen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine H7458 in the land, not a famine H7458 of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

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