רָעֵב
ra.ev
“hungry”
Definition
hungry (more or less intensely)
from H7456 (רָעֵב);
- hungry 1a) hungry 1b) hungry man (subst) 1c) of failing strength (fig)
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Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
רָעֵב appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The well-fed hire themselves out for food,but the starving hunger no more.The barren woman gives birth to seven,but she who has many sons pines away.
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and if you give yourself to the hungryand satisfy the afflicted soul,then your light will go forth in the darkness,and your night will be like noonday.
Without clothing, they wander about naked.They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
They were hungry and thirsty;their soul fainted within them.
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