רָעָבrâʻâb

famine, hunger

Pronunciation: raw-awb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7458

Meanings

1. famine, (in land, nation or city) (Genesis 12:10; Genesis 26:1; Genesis 41:30)

2. hunger, of individual (Jeremiah 32:9; Deuteronomy 28:48; 2 Chronicles 32:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 101 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 12:10 At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner.
  • Genesis 26:1 A severe famine now struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham’s time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.
  • Genesis 41:27 The seven thin, scrawny cows that came up later and the seven thin heads of grain, withered by the east wind, represent seven years of famine.
  • Genesis 41:30 But afterward there will be seven years of famine so great that all the prosperity will be forgotten in Egypt. Famine will destroy the land.
  • Genesis 41:31 This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.
  • Genesis 41:36 That way there will be enough to eat when the seven years of famine come to the land of Egypt. Otherwise this famine will destroy the land.”
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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).