1) famine, hunger 1a) famine (in land, nation) 1a1) of Jehovah's word (fig) 1b) hunger (of individuals)
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H7458 — רָעָב
ra.av · famine · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 12:10 · רָעָ֖ב · הָרָעָ֖בAnd there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.Genesis 26:1 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֣בAnd there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.Genesis 41:27 · רָעָֽב׃And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.Genesis 41:30 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֖בAnd there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;Genesis 41:31 · הָרָעָ֥בAnd the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous.Genesis 41:36 · הָרָעָ֔ב · בָּרָעָֽב׃And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.Genesis 41:50 · הָרָעָ֑בAnd unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.Genesis 41:54 · הָרָעָב֙ · רָעָב֙And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.Genesis 41:56 · וְהָרָעָ֣ב · הָֽרָעָ֖בAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.Genesis 41:57 · הָרָעָ֖בAnd all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.Genesis 42:5 · הָרָעָ֖בAnd the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.Genesis 43:1 · וְהָרָעָ֖בAnd the famine [was] sore in the land.Genesis 45:6 · הָרָעָ֖בFor these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.Genesis 45:11 · רָעָ֑בAnd there will I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.Genesis 47:4 · הָרָעָ֖בThey said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.Genesis 47:13 · הָרָעָ֖ב · הָרָעָֽב׃And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.Genesis 47:20 · הָרָעָ֑בAnd Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.Exodus 16:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃ סAnd the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Deuteronomy 28:48 · בְּרָעָ֧בTherefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.Deuteronomy 32:24 · רָעָ֛ב[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.Ruth 1:1 · רָעָ֖בNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.2 Samuel 21:1 · רָעָב֩Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.2 Samuel 24:13 · רָעָ֣ב׀So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.1 Kings 8:37 · רָעָ֞בIf there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];1 Kings 18:2 · וְהָרָעָ֖בAnd Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And [there was] a sore famine in Samaria.2 Kings 4:38 · וְהָרָעָ֣בAnd Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.2 Kings 6:25 · רָעָ֤בAnd there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five [pieces] of silver.2 Kings 7:4 · וְהָרָעָ֤בIf we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.2 Kings 8:1 · לָֽרָעָ֔בThen spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.2 Kings 25:3 · הָרָעָ֖בAnd on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.1 Chronicles 21:12 · רָעָ֗בEither three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.2 Chronicles 6:28 · רָעָ֞בIf there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:2 Chronicles 20:9 · וְרָעָב֒If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.2 Chronicles 32:11 · בְּרָעָ֥בDoth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?Nehemiah 5:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.Nehemiah 9:15 · לִרְעָבָ֔םAnd gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.Job 5:20 · בְּ֭רָעָבIn famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.Psalm 33:19 · בָּרָעָֽב׃To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.Psalm 105:16 · רָ֭עָבMoreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.Isaiah 5:13 · רָעָ֔בTherefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.Isaiah 14:30 · בָֽרָעָב֙And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.Isaiah 51:19 · וְהָרָעָ֥בThese two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?Jeremiah 5:12 · וְרָעָ֖בThey have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:Jeremiah 11:22 · בָּרָעָֽב׃Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:Jeremiah 14:12 · וּבָרָעָ֣בWhen they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.Jeremiah 14:13 · וְרָעָ֖בThen said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.Jeremiah 14:15 · וְרָעָ֔ב · וּבָֽרָעָב֙Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.Jeremiah 14:16 · הָרָעָ֣בAnd the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.Jeremiah 14:18 · רָעָ֑בIf I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.Jeremiah 15:2 · לָֽרָעָב֙ · לָֽרָעָ֔בAnd it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.Jeremiah 16:4 · וּבָֽרָעָב֙They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.Jeremiah 18:21 · לָרָעָ֗בTherefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.Jeremiah 21:7 · הָרָעָ֗בAnd afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.Jeremiah 21:9 · וּבָרָעָ֣בHe that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.Jeremiah 24:10 · הָרָעָ֣בAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.Jeremiah 27:8 · וּבָרָעָ֨בAnd it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.Jeremiah 27:13 · בָּרָעָ֣בWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?Jeremiah 29:17 · הָרָעָ֣בThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.Jeremiah 29:18 · בָּרָעָ֣בAnd I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:Jeremiah 32:24 · וְהָרָעָ֖בBehold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest [it].Jeremiah 32:36 · וּבָרָעָ֥בAnd now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;Jeremiah 34:17 · הָרָעָ֔בTherefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.Jeremiah 38:2 · בָּרָעָ֣בThus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.Jeremiah 38:9 · הָֽרָעָ֔בMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.Jeremiah 42:16 · וְהָרָעָ֞בThen it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.Jeremiah 42:17 · בָּרָעָ֣בSo shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.Jeremiah 42:22 · בָּרָעָ֥בNow therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.Jeremiah 44:12 · בָּֽרָעָב֙ · וּבָרָעָ֖בAnd I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.Jeremiah 44:13 · בָּרָעָ֖בFor I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:Jeremiah 44:18 · וּבָרָעָ֖בBut since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.Jeremiah 44:27 · וּבָרָעָ֖בBehold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.Jeremiah 52:6 · הָרָעָ֖בAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.Lamentations 2:19 · בְּרָעָ֖בArise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.Lamentations 4:9 · רָעָ֑ב[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.Lamentations 5:10 · רָעָֽב׃Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Amos 8:11 · רָעָ֖ב · רָעָ֤בBehold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: