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Strong's #7457: ra`eb (pronounced raw-abe')

from 7456; hungry (more or less intensely):--hunger bitten, hungry.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râ‛êb

1) hungry

1a) hungry

1b) hungry man (substantive)

1c) of failing strength (figuratively)

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from H7456



Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

1 Samuel 2:5: "They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born"
2 Samuel 17:29: "for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
2 Kings 7:12: "to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves"
Job 5:5: "Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns,"
Job 18:12: "His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side."
Job 22:7: "to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry."
Job 24:10: "clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;"
Psalms 107:5: " Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted"
Psalms 107:9: "the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness."
Psalms 107:36: "And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;"
Psalms 146:7: "for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:"
Proverbs 25:21: "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water"
Proverbs 27:7: "soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet."
Isaiah 29:8: "It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul"
Isaiah 32:6: "the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail."
Isaiah 58:7: "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?"
Isaiah 58:10: "And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise"
Ezekiel 18:7: "by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;"
Ezekiel 18:16: "by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,"









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