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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.).
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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 2 / 2 (Jer 16:4–Amo 8:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine H7458, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 -

Therefore, give their children over to famine H7458

And deliver them up to the [fn]power of the sword;

And let their wives become childless and widowed.

Let their men also be [fn]smitten to death,

Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterwards,” declares Yahweh, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who remain in this city from the pestilence, the sword, and the famine H7458, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not show pity on them nor spare nor have compassion.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - “He who inhabits this city will die by the sword and by famine H7458 and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - ‘I will send the sword, the famine H7458, and the pestilence upon them until they come to an end from being upon the land which I gave to them and their fathers.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 -

“And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine H7458, and with pestilence,” declares Yahweh, “until I have brought [fn]it to an end by his hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine H7458, and pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine H7458, and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - ‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine H7458, and with pestilence; and I will give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an object of horror and of hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine H7458, and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 -

“So now, therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you are saying, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine H7458, and by pestilence.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 -

“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine H7458; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by the famine H7458 and by the pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as spoil and stay alive.’
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 cistern; and he [fn]will die right where he is because of the famine H7458, for there is no more bread in the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16 - then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine H7458, about which you are anxious, will [fn]follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - “So all the men who set their face to go to Egypt to sojourn there will die by the sword, by the famine H7458, and by the pestilence; and they will have no survivors or any who escaped from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - So now, you should clearly know that you will die by the sword, by famine H7458, and by pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their face on entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and [fn]meet their end by famine H7458. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine H7458; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine H7458, and with pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have [fn]met our end by the sword and by famine H7458.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - ‘Behold, I am watching over them for [fn]evil and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will [fn]meet their end by the sword and by famine H7458 until they [fn]are completely consumed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine H7458 was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -

Qoph

“Arise, cry aloud in the night

At the head of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Lift up your hands to Him

For the life of your infants

Who are faint because of hunger H7458

At the head of every street.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 -

Teth

Better are those pierced through with the sword

Than those pierced through with hunger H7458;

For their life flows away, being stricken

For lack of the produce of [fn]the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 -

Our skin has become as hot as an oven

Because of [fn]the burning heat of famine H7458.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - ‘One-third of you will die by the plague or be consumed by the famine H7458 among you, one-third will fall by the sword around you, and one-third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:16 - ‘When I send against them the [fn]deadly arrows of famine H7458 which [fn]were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine H7458 upon you and break the staff of bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - ‘Moreover, I will send on you famine H7458 and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 -

“Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Strike your hands together, stamp your foot and say, “Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by the sword, by the famine H7458, and by the plague!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - “He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine H7458. Thus will I spend My wrath on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - ‘The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine H7458 are inside. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine H7458 and the plague will also devour those in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - “But I will [fn]spare a few of them from sword, famine H7458, and pestilence that they may recount all their abominations among the nations where they go, and [fn]may know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, break its staff of bread, send famine H7458 against it, and cut off from it both man and beast,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “How much more when I send My four calamitous judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine H7458, wild beasts, and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - “I will establish for them a [fn]renowned planting place, and they will not again be [fn]victims of famine H7458 in the land, and they will not bear the dishonor of the nations anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - “Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not [fn]bring a famine H7458 on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - “I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field so that you will not receive again the reproach of famine H7458 among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 -

“Behold, days are coming,” declares Lord Yahweh,

“When I will send a famine H7458 on the land,

Not a famine H7458 for bread or a thirst for water,

But rather for hearing the words of Yahweh.


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