Lexicon raab: famine, hunger Original Word: רָעָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: raab Phonetic Spelling: (raw-awb') Short Definition: famine NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom raebDefinitionfamine, hunger NASB Translationfamine (94), famished (1), hunger (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs רָעָב101 noun masculineGenesis 26:1 famine, hunger; — absolute ׳ר Genesis 12:10 +; suffix רְעָבָם Nehemiah 9:15; 1 famine (in land, nation or city), Genesis 12:10; Genesis 26:1; Genesis 41:30,31; Exodus 16:3; 2 Samuel 21:1; 2 Samuel 24:13 = 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 6:25 +; ׳שְׁנֵי( הָ)ר Genesis 41:27,30,36, ׳שְׁנַת ר Genesis 41:50, but also ׳שָׁנִים ר [שָׁלוֺשׁ] שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13 (on Gender see AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 103) = 1 Chronicles 21:12; with חזק (be) severe Genesis 47:56; Genesis 47:57; 1 Kings 18:2; 1Ki 25:3= Jeremiah 52:6, חזק עַל Genesis 47:20; with כָּבֵד Genesis 12:10; Genesis 47:4,13; גָּדוֺל 2 Kings 6:25; ׳זַלְעֲפוֺת ר Lamentations 5:10; ׳מְזֵי ר Deuteronomy 32:24 + Isaiah 5:13 (see [מָזֶה]), ׳תַּחֲלוּאֵי ר Jeremiah 14:18, ׳חַלֲלֵי ר Lamentations 5:10, ׳אֲסֻפֵי ר Ezekiel 34:29; ׳חִצֵּי הָר Ezekiel 5:16; as scourge of ׳י (+ חֶרֶב, דֶּבֶר, etc.; especially Jeremiah, Ezekiel), Jeremiah 5:12; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 21:7,9; Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 6:11,12 +, etc.; figurative of lack of ׳יs word Amos 8:11. 2 hunger, of individual Jeremiah 32:9; Deuteronomy 28:48 (+ צָמָא, etc.), 2 Chronicles 32:11 (+ id.).
Strong's dearth, famine, famished, hunger From ra'eb; hunger (more or less extensive) -- dearth, famine, + famished, hunger. see HEBREW ra'eb |
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