רָעֵב
râʻêb · H7456 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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to be hungry, to starve
State in which humans are wanting or needing food, but having little to no access to it
ExamplesGenesis 41:55 So when all the land of Egypt suffered famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.”
Psalm 34:10 The young lions do without and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.
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Causative action by which a person is kept from having access to food (to cause hunger, to let (one) go hungry)
ExamplesDeuteronomy 8:3 “And He humbled you and let you go hungry, and fed you with the manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, in order to make you understand that man shall not live on bread alone, but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the LORD.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
13 occurrences in 8 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 5
- Not stated: they 2
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
- ךָּyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ לֶחֶםbread, food 1
With adverbsAdverbs
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πεινάω peináō · G3983 · to be hungry, to have hunger, to desire strongly
- Greek πεινάω directly translates Hebrew רָעֵב as the standard rendering for hunger/famine in LXX contexts, covering both literal physical hunger and the causative sense of causing to hunger.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hunger002004001001002
- Genesis 41:55 describes Egypt as it "suffered famine," Deuteronomy 8:3 recalls that the LORD "let you go hungry" before feeding Israel with manna, and Psalm 50:12 states "if I were hungry," richly and directly attesting the sense of hunger.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7456. raeb רָעֵב verb be hungry (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il and derivatives; Assyrian…
רָעֵב verb be hungry (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il and derivatives; Assyrian rûbatu, hunger; Arabic be roomy, voracious, desire vehemently; Ethiopic be hungry); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר Isa 9:19; Isa 44:12; Isa 44:3plural רָעֵ֑בוּ Psa 34:11; Imperfect3masculine singular יִרְעַב Isa 8:21, Isa 8:1plural נִרְעַב Jer 42:14, etc.; — be hungry Isa 8:21; Gen 41:55 (E; of land, = have famine), Jer 42:14 (לַלֶּחֶם), Isa 49:10 (|| צמא), Isa 65:13 (|| id.; opposed to אכל), Psa 50:12 if I should be hungry (of ׳י), Pro 6:30; Pro 19:15.
Hiph`il allow one to hunger, subject ׳י: Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּרְעִבֶ֑ךָ Deu 8:3 (opposed to וַיַּאֲִכלְךָ), נֶפֶשׁ יַרְעִיב Pro 10:3.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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