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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)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. And they will perish by sword and famine H7458, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 -

Therefore, give their children over to famine H7458

And turn them over to the [fn]power of the sword;

And let their wives become childless and widowed.

Let their men also be slaughtered to death,

Their young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterward,” declares the LORD, “I will hand Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, that is, those who survive in this city from the plague, the sword, and the famine H7458, over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to their enemies, and to those who seek their lives; and he will strike and kill them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - Anyone who stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine H7458, or by plague; but anyone who leaves and goes over to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - ‘And I will send the sword, the famine H7458, and the plague upon them until they are eliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”
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 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 plague,’ declares the LORD, ‘until I have eliminated [fn]it by his hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why should you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine H7458, and plague, as the LORD has spoken to the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - this is what the LORD of armies says: ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine H7458, and plague; and I will make them like rotten 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 plague; and I will make them an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an object of horror and [fn]hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations where I have driven them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the assault ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine H7458, and the plague; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 -

“Now therefore the LORD God of Israel says the following concerning this city of which you say, ‘It has been handed over to the king of Babylon by sword, by famine H7458, and by plague’:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 -

“Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release, each one to his brother and each to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares the LORD, ‘to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine H7458; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Anyone who stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine H7458, or by plague; but anyone who surrenders to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as plunder, and stay alive.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have thrown into the cistern; and he 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, of which you are afraid, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine H7458, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - “So all the people who set their [fn]minds to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine H7458, or by plague; and they will have no refugees or survivors from the disaster that I am going to bring on them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - And now you shall know for certain that you will die by the sword, by famine H7458, or by plague in the place where you desire to go to reside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their [fn]minds on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword or meet their end by famine H7458. From the small to the great, they will die by the sword and famine H7458; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, [fn]an imprecation, and a disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine H7458, and with plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning [fn]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have met our end by the sword and by famine H7458.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - ‘Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will [fn]meet their end by the sword or by famine H7458 until they [fn]are completely gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine H7458 was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -

“Arise, whimper in the night

At the beginning of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Raise your hands to Him

For the life of your little ones

Who languish because of hunger H7458

At the head of every street.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 -

Better off are those killed by the sword

Than those killed by hunger H7458;

For they [fn]waste away, [fn]stricken

By the lack of the produce of the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 -

Our skin has become as hot as an oven,

Because of the ravages of hunger H7458.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - ‘A third of you will die by plague or perish by famine H7458 among you, a third will fall by the sword around you, and a 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 off your [fn]provision of bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - ‘I will send on you famine H7458 and vicious animals, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 -

“This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: ‘Clap your hands, stamp your foot and say, “Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by the sword, famine H7458, and plague!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - Anyone who is far away will die by the plague, anyone who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who remains and is spared from these will die by the famine H7458. So I will expend My wrath on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - ‘The sword is outside the city and the plague and the famine H7458 are within. Anyone who is in the field will die by the sword, while famine H7458 and the plague will consume those in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - “But I will [fn]spare a few of them from the sword, the famine H7458, and plague so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go, and [fn]may know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against Me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out My hand against it, [fn]destroy its supply of bread, send famine H7458 against it, and eliminate from it both human and animal life,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “How much more when I send My four [fn]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine H7458, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - “I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be [fn]victims of famine H7458 in the land, and they will not endure the insults 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 - “Instead, I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine H7458 among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 -

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,

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

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

But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.


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