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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, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So Israel's sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor - you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you."'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - During David's reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the LORD. The LORD said, "It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - Gad went to David and told him, "Shall seven years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what I should tell the one who sent me."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - "The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant, "Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - Samaria's food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey's head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove's droppings for five shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we go into the city, we'll die of starvation, and if we stay here we'll die! So come on, let's defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we'll live; if they kill us - well, we were going to die anyway."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, "You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - three years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, or three days being struck down by the LORD, during which a plague will invade the land and the LORD's messenger will destroy throughout Israel's territory.' Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - "The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - 'If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will hear and deliver us.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Hezekiah says, "The LORD our God will rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria." But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - There were others who said, "We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 - by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 - He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - The poor will graze in my pastures; the needy will rest securely. But I will kill your root by famine; it will put to death all your survivors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - "These people have denied what the LORD says. They have said, 'That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - So the LORD who rules over all said, "I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then I said, "Oh, Lord GOD, look! The prophets are telling them that you said, 'You will not experience war or suffer famine. I will give you lasting peace and prosperity in this land.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, 'No war or famine will happen in this land.' But I, the LORD, say this about them: 'War and starvation will kill those prophets.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 - If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:2 - If they ask you, 'Where should we go?' tell them the LORD says this: "Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile."

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