1) famine, hunger 1a) famine (in land, nation) 1a1) of Jehovah's word (fig) 1b) hunger (of individuals)
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Genesis 12:10 · רָעָ֖ב · הָרָעָ֖בThere was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.Genesis 26:1 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֣בThere was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.Genesis 41:27 · רָעָֽב׃The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.Genesis 41:30 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֖בThere will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,Genesis 41:31 · הָרָעָ֥בand the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.Genesis 41:36 · הָרָעָ֔ב · בָּרָעָֽב׃The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”Genesis 41:50 · הָרָעָ֑בTo Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.Genesis 41:54 · הָרָעָב֙ · רָעָב֙The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.Genesis 41:56 · וְהָרָעָ֣ב · הָֽרָעָ֖בThe famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.Genesis 41:57 · הָרָעָ֖בAll countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.Genesis 42:5 · הָרָעָ֖בThe sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.Genesis 43:1 · וְהָרָעָ֖בThe famine was severe in the land.Genesis 45:6 · הָרָעָ֖בFor these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.Genesis 45:11 · רָעָ֑בThere I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’Genesis 47:4 · הָרָעָ֖בThey said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”Genesis 47:13 · הָרָעָ֖ב · הָרָעָֽב׃There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.Genesis 47:20 · הָרָעָ֑בSo Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.Exodus 16:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃ סand the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”Deuteronomy 28:48 · בְּרָעָ֧בtherefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.Deuteronomy 32:24 · רָעָ֛בThey shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.Ruth 1:1 · רָעָ֖בIt happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.2 Samuel 21:1 · רָעָב֩There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”2 Samuel 24:13 · רָעָ֣ב׀So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”1 Kings 8:37 · רָעָ֞ב“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;1 Kings 18:2 · וְהָרָעָ֖בElijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.2 Kings 4:38 · וְהָרָעָ֣בElisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”2 Kings 6:25 · רָעָ֤בThere was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab 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. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”2 Kings 8:1 · לָֽרָעָ֔בNow Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years.”2 Kings 25:3 · הָרָעָ֖בOn the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.1 Chronicles 21:12 · רָעָ֗בeither three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”2 Chronicles 6:28 · רָעָ֞ב“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;2 Chronicles 20:9 · וְרָעָב֒‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’2 Chronicles 32:11 · בְּרָעָ֥בDoesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’Nehemiah 5:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃Some also there were that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”Nehemiah 9:15 · לִרְעָבָ֔םand gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.Job 5:20 · בְּ֭רָעָבIn famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.Psalm 33:19 · בָּרָעָֽב׃to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.Psalm 105:16 · רָ֭עָבHe called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.Isaiah 5:13 · רָעָ֔בTherefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.Isaiah 14:30 · בָֽרָעָב֙The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.Isaiah 51:19 · וְהָרָעָ֥בThese two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?Jeremiah 5:12 · וְרָעָ֖בThey have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine.Jeremiah 11:22 · בָּרָעָֽב׃therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 meal offering, 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 I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.Jeremiah 14:15 · וְרָעָ֔ב · וּבָֽרָעָב֙Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn’t send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.Jeremiah 14:16 · הָרָעָ֣בThe 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 on 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, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.Jeremiah 15:2 · לָֽרָעָב֙ · לָֽרָעָ֔בIt shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: 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 captivity, to captivity.Jeremiah 16:4 · וּבָֽרָעָב֙They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.Jeremiah 18:21 · לָרָעָ֗בTherefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.Jeremiah 21:7 · הָרָעָ֗בAfterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.Jeremiah 21:9 · וּבָרָעָ֣בHe who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.Jeremiah 24:10 · הָרָעָ֣בI will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.Jeremiah 27:8 · וּבָרָעָ֨בIt shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.Jeremiah 27:13 · בָּרָעָ֣בWhy will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?Jeremiah 29:17 · הָרָעָ֣בthus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.Jeremiah 29:18 · בָּרָעָ֣בI will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;Jeremiah 32:24 · וְהָרָעָ֖בBehold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.Jeremiah 32:36 · וּבָרָעָ֥בNow therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:Jeremiah 34:17 · הָרָעָ֔בTherefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.Jeremiah 38:2 · בָּרָעָ֣בThus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he 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 likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.Jeremiah 42:16 · וְהָרָעָ֞בthen it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.Jeremiah 42:17 · בָּרָעָ֣בSo shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live 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 on them.Jeremiah 42:22 · בָּרָעָ֥בNow therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.Jeremiah 44:12 · בָּֽרָעָב֙ · וּבָרָעָ֖בI will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.Jeremiah 44:13 · בָּרָעָ֖בFor I will punish those who 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 burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.Jeremiah 44:27 · וּבָרָעָ֖בBehold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.Jeremiah 52:6 · הָרָעָ֖בIn the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.Lamentations 2:19 · בְּרָעָ֖בArise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.Lamentations 4:9 · רָעָ֑בThose who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.Lamentations 5:10 · רָעָֽב׃Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.Amos 8:11 · רָעָ֖ב · רָעָ֤בBehold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “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 Yahweh.