רָעֵב
râʻêb · H7457 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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hungry
Condition of not having food to eat, often leading to weakness
Examples1 Samuel 2:5 “Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, But those who were hungry cease to be hungry. Even the infertile woman gives birth to seven, But she who has many children languishes.
2 Samuel 17:29 honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him, to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and exhausted and thirsty in the wilderness.”
2 Kings 7:12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”
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
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- חָדַלto cease, to stop 1
- חָלַםto dream 1
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָדַעto know 1
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֲנַחְנוּwe 1
- עַםpeople 1
- שָׂנֵאto hate 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 10
- מִןfrom 2
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 (peináō, G3983) serves as the standard verbal rendering of Hebrew רָעֵב (râʻêb, H7457) in LXX translation contexts, both denoting the state or experience of hunger, with the Greek form carrying both literal and extended figurative senses that align with the Hebrew's core semantic range.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hunger002004001001002
- 1 Samuel 2:5 declares "those who were hungry cease to be hungry," 2 Samuel 17:29 reports "the people are hungry," and 2 Kings 7:12 and Job 5:5 and 18:12 likewise use this word of hunger, richly and directly attesting the sense.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7457. raeb רָעֵב adjective hungry; — absolute ׳ר 2Sa 17:29 +; feminine singular רְעֵבָה…
רָעֵב adjective hungry; — absolute ׳ר 2Sa 17:29 +; feminine singular רְעֵבָה Psa 107:9; Pro 27:7; masculine plural רְעֵבִים 1Sa 2:5 +; — hungry (sometimes + עָיֵף צָמֵא,), 2Sa 17:29; 2Ki 7:12; Isa 8:21; Pro 25:21; Psa 107:5; רְעֵבָה נֶפֶשׁ Psa 107:9; Pro 27:7; as substantive singular a hungry man Isa 29:8; Isa 32:6; Isa 58:7, Isa 58:10; Eze 18:7, Eze 18:16; Job 5:5 (BevJPhil. xxvi. 304 proposes רָעָב, compare Eze 7:15) Eze 22:7, plural 1Sa 2:5 (opposed to בַּלֶּחֶם שְׂבֵעִים), Job 24:10 (|| עָרוֺם), Psa 107:36; Psa 146:7; אֹנוֺ יְהִירָֿעֵב Job 18:12 (figurative) his strength grows hungry, i.e. fails (ᵑ9 Ew Di and others); ᵑ6 De Bu Du (reading אָוֶן) al. his trouble grows hungry (i.e. ravenous for him), but ׳ר never elsewhere in this sense.
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
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