Strong's #7456: ra`eb (pronounced raw-abe')

a primitive root; to hunger:--(suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râ‛êb

1) to be hungry, be voracious

1a) (Qal) to be hungry

1b) (Hiphil) to allow one to be hungry, allow to hunger

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Genesis 41:55: "And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh"
Deuteronomy 8:3: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not,"
Psalms 34:10: "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any"
Psalms 50:12: "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness"
Proverbs 6:30: "to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;"
Proverbs 10:3: "will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked."
Proverbs 19:15: "into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger."
Isaiah 8:21: "and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God,"
Isaiah 9:20: "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not"
Isaiah 44:12: "and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh"
Isaiah 49:10: "They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite"
Isaiah 65:13: "my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye"
Jeremiah 42:14: "the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:"