רָעֵבrâʻêb
be hungry
Pronunciation: raw-abe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7456
Meanings
Qal: be hungry (Isaiah 9:19; Isaiah 44:12; Psalms 34:11)
Hiph`il: allow, to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3; Proverbs 10:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:55 Eventually, however, the famine spread throughout the land of Egypt as well. And when the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told them, “Go to Joseph, and do whatever he tells you.”
- Deuteronomy 8:3 Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
- Psalms 34:10 Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing.
- Psalms 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
- Proverbs 6:30 Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving.
- Proverbs 10:3 The Lord will not let the godly go hungry, but he refuses to satisfy the craving of the wicked.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).