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 is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine is grievous in the land;Genesis 26:1 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֣בAnd there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.Genesis 41:27 · רָעָֽב׃and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;Genesis 41:30 · רָעָב֙ · הָרָעָ֖בand seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,Genesis 41:31 · הָרָעָ֥בand the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it is very grievous.Genesis 41:36 · הָרָעָ֔ב · בָּרָעָֽב׃and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.’Genesis 41:50 · הָרָעָ֑בAnd to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him,Genesis 41:54 · הָרָעָב֙ · רָעָב֙and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt hath been bread;Genesis 41:56 · וְהָרָעָ֣ב · הָֽרָעָ֖בAnd the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all places which have corn in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,Genesis 41:57 · הָרָעָ֖בand all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.Genesis 42:5 · הָרָעָ֖בAnd the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,Genesis 43:1 · וְהָרָעָ֖בAnd the famine is severe in the land;Genesis 45:6 · הָרָעָ֖בBecause these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;Genesis 45:11 · רָעָ֑בand I have nourished thee there—for yet are five years of famine—lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.Genesis 47:4 · הָרָעָ֖בand they say unto Pharaoh, ‘To sojourn in the land we have come, for there is no pasture for the flock which thy servants have, for grievous is the famine in the land of Canaan; and now, let thy servants, we pray thee, dwell in the land of Goshen.’Genesis 47:13 · הָרָעָ֖ב · הָרָעָֽב׃And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine is very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;Genesis 47:20 · הָרָעָ֑בAnd Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh’s;Exodus 16:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃ סand the sons of Israel say unto them, ‘Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety—for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.’Deuteronomy 28:48 · בְּרָעָ֧בthou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.Deuteronomy 32:24 · רָעָ֛בExhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.Ruth 1:1 · רָעָ֖בAnd it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.2 Samuel 21:1 · רָעָב֩And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, ‘For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.’2 Samuel 24:13 · רָעָ֣ב׀And Gad cometh in unto David, and declareth to him, and saith to him, ‘Do seven years of famine come in to thee in thy land? or three months art thou fleeing before thine adversary—and he pursuing thee? or are three days’ pestilence in thy land? now, know and see what word I take back to Him sending me.’1 Kings 8:37 · רָעָ֞בFamine—when it is in the land; pestilence—when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar—when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land in its gates, any plague, any sickness,—1 Kings 18:2 · וְהָרָעָ֖בand Elijah goeth to appear unto Ahab. And the famine is severe in Samaria,2 Kings 4:38 · וְהָרָעָ֣בAnd Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine is in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, ‘Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.’2 Kings 6:25 · רָעָ֤בand there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.2 Kings 7:4 · וְהָרָעָ֤בif we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine is in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death—we have died.’2 Kings 8:1 · לָֽרָעָ֔בAnd Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived, saying, ‘Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and also, it is coming unto the land seven years.’2 Kings 25:3 · הָרָעָ֖בon the ninth of the month—when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,1 Chronicles 21:12 · רָעָ֗בeither for three years—famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?’2 Chronicles 6:28 · רָעָ֞ב‘Famine, when it is in the land, pestilence, when it is, blasting, and mildew, locust, and caterpillar, when they are, when its enemies have distressed it in the land—its gates, any plague and any sickness;2 Chronicles 20:9 · וְרָעָב֒If evil doth come upon us—sword, judgment, and pestilence, and famine—we stand before this house, and before Thee, for Thy name is in this house, and cry unto Thee out of our distress, and Thou dost hear and save.2 Chronicles 32:11 · בְּרָעָ֥ב‘Is not Hezekiah persuading you, to give you up to die by famine, and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God doth deliver us from the hand of the king of Asshur?Nehemiah 5:3 · בָּרָעָֽב׃And there are who are saying, ‘Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.’Nehemiah 9:15 · לִרְעָבָ֔םand bread from the heavens Thou hast given to them for their hunger, and water from a rock hast brought out to them for their thirst, and dost say to them to go in to possess the land that Thou hast lifted up Thy hand to give to them.Job 5:20 · בְּ֭רָעָבIn famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.Psalm 33:19 · בָּרָעָֽב׃To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.Psalm 105:16 · רָ֭עָבAnd He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.Isaiah 5:13 · רָעָ֔בTherefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.Isaiah 14:30 · בָֽרָעָב֙And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.Isaiah 51:19 · וְהָרָעָ֥בThese two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction—Famine and sword, who—I comfort thee?Jeremiah 5:12 · וְרָעָ֖בThey have lied against Jehovah, And they say, ‘It is not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.Jeremiah 11:22 · בָּרָעָֽב׃Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: ‘Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,Jeremiah 14:12 · וּבָרָעָ֣בWhen they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.Jeremiah 14:13 · וְרָעָ֖בAnd I say, ‘Ah, Lord Jehovah, Lo, the prophets are saying to them: Ye do not see a sword, yea, famine is not to you, For true peace I give to you in this place.’Jeremiah 14:15 · וְרָעָ֔ב · וּבָֽרָעָב֙Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, and I have not sent them, and they are saying, Sword and famine is not in this land: By sword and by famine are these prophets consumed.Jeremiah 14:16 · הָרָעָ֣בAnd the people to whom they are prophesying, Are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, Because of the famine, and of the sword, And they have none burying them, Them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, And I have poured out upon them this evil.Jeremiah 14:18 · רָעָ֑בIf I have gone forth to the field, Then, lo, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered the city, Then, lo, the diseased of famine! For both prophet and priest have gone up and down Unto a land that they knew not.Jeremiah 15:2 · לָֽרָעָב֙ · לָֽרָעָ֔בAnd it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who are for death—to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity.Jeremiah 16:4 · וּבָֽרָעָב֙Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.Jeremiah 18:21 · לָרָעָ֗בTherefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,Jeremiah 21:7 · הָרָעָ֗בAnd after this—an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those 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 seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.Jeremiah 21:9 · וּבָרָעָ֣בWhoso is abiding in this city—dieth, By sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, And whoso is going forth, And hath fallen unto the Chaldeans, Who are laying siege against you—liveth, And his life hath been to him for a spoil.Jeremiah 24:10 · הָרָעָ֣בAnd I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!Jeremiah 27:8 · וּבָרָעָ֨בAnd it hath come to pass, the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him—Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—and that which putteth not its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, I lay a charge on that nation—an affirmation of Jehovah—till I consume them by his hand.Jeremiah 27:13 · בָּרָעָ֣בWhy do ye die, thou and thy people, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that doth not serve the king of Babylon?Jeremiah 29:17 · הָרָעָ֣בThus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that are vile, that are not eaten for badness.Jeremiah 29:18 · בָּרָעָ֣בAnd I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,Jeremiah 32:24 · וְהָרָעָ֖ב‘Lo, the mounts—they have come in to the city to capture it, and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence; and that which Thou hast spoken hath come to pass, and lo, Thou art seeing;Jeremiah 32:36 · וּבָרָעָ֥ב‘And now, therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye are saying, It hath been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence,Jeremiah 34:17 · הָרָעָ֔ב‘Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbour; lo, I am proclaiming to you liberty—an affirmation of Jehovah—unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.Jeremiah 38:2 · בָּרָעָ֣ב‘Thus said Jehovah: He who is remaining in this city dieth, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, and he who is going forth unto the Chaldeans liveth, and his soul hath been to him for a prey, and he liveth.Jeremiah 38:9 · הָֽרָעָ֔בMy lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.’Jeremiah 42:16 · וְהָרָעָ֞בthen it hath come to pass, the sword that ye are afraid of, doth there overtake you, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which ye are sorrowful, doth there cleave after you in Egypt, and there ye die.Jeremiah 42:17 · בָּרָעָ֣ב‘Thus are all the men who have set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there; they die—by sword, by hunger, and by pestilence, and there is not to them a remnant and an escaped one, because of the evil that I am bringing in upon them;Jeremiah 42:22 · בָּרָעָ֥בAnd now, know ye certainly that by sword, by famine, and by pestilence ye die, in the place that ye have desired to go in to sojourn there.’Jeremiah 44:12 · בָּֽרָעָב֙ · וּבָרָעָ֖בand I have taken the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt; they fall by sword, by famine they are consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine they die, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach.Jeremiah 44:13 · בָּרָעָ֖ב‘And I have seen after those dwelling in the land of Egypt, as I saw after Jerusalem, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,Jeremiah 44:18 · וּבָרָעָ֖ב‘And from the time we have ceased to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, we have lacked all, and by sword and by famine we have been consumed,Jeremiah 44:27 · וּבָרָעָ֖בLo, I am watching over them for evil, and not for good, and consumed have been all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, by sword and by famine, till their consumption.Jeremiah 52:6 · הָרָעָ֖בIn the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,Lamentations 2:19 · בְּרָעָ֖בArise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.Lamentations 4:9 · רָעָ֑בBetter have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.Lamentations 5:10 · רָעָֽב׃Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.Amos 8:11 · רָעָ֖ב · רָעָ֤בLo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.