Word

רְעָבוֹן

rᵉʻâbôwn · H7459 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

famine, starvation

State of having a lack of food for a prolonged period of time, affecting a group of people, either large or small

Examples
Genesis 42:19 if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine of your households,
Genesis 42:33 “But the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.
Psalm 37:19 They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, And in the days of famine they will have plenty.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 1
שֶׁבֶרbreaking 1

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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Near synonyms 1 word

כָּפָן kâphân · H3720 · hunger, famine, starvation: Both refer to famine or hunger.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hunger002004001001002: Genesis 42:19 and 33 both refer to carrying "grain for the famine of your households," and Psalm 37:19 speaks of "the days of famine," directly attesting the sense of famine.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָעֵב râʻêb · H7456 · to be hungry, to starve, to cause hunger · 13×רָעָב râʻâb · H7458 · hunger, famine · 101×רָעֵב râʻêb · H7457 · hungry · 20×רְעָבוֹןrᵉʻâbôwn · H7459

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7459. reabon רְעָבוֺן noun [masculine] hunger, lack of food, famine; — construct…

H7459. reabon
רְעָבוֺן noun [masculine] hunger, lack of food, famine; — construct בָּֽתֵּיכֶם רַעֲבוֺן Gen 42:19, Gen 42:33 (E); absolute רְעָבוֺן בִּימֵי Psa 37:19.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hunger3 occurrences

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