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.”
See every passage
- Genesis 12:10, 26:1, 41:27, 41:30, 41:31, 41:36, 41:50, 41:54, 41:56, 41:57, 42:5, 43:1, 45:6, 45:11, 47:4, 47:13, 47:20
- Exodus 16:3
- Deuteronomy 28:48, 32:24
- Ruth 1:1
- 2 Samuel 21:1, 24:13
- 1 Kings 8:37, 18:2
- 2 Kings 4:38, 6:25, 7:4, 8:1, 25:3
- 1 Chronicles 21:12
- 2 Chronicles 6:28, 20:9, 32:11
- Nehemiah 5:3, 9:15
- Job 5:20
- Psalms 33:19, 105:16
- Isaiah 5:13, 14:30, 51:19
- Jeremiah 5:12, 11:22, 14:12, 14:13, 14:15, 14:16, 14:18, 15:2, 16:4, 18:21, 21:7, 21:9, 24:10, 27:8, 27:13, 29:17, 29:18, 32:24, 32:36, 34:17, 38:2, 38:9, 42:16, 42:17, 42:22, 44:12, 44:13, 44:18, 44:27, 52:6
- Lamentations 2:19, 4:9, 5:10
- Ezekiel 5:12, 5:16, 5:17, 6:11, 6:12, 7:15, 12:16, 14:13, 14:21, 34:29, 36:29, 36:30
- Amos 8:11
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).