Strong's #7458: ra`ab (pronounced raw-awb')
from 7456; hunger (more or less extensive):--dearth, famine, + famished, hunger.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râ‛âb
1) famine, hunger
1a) famine (in land, nation)
1a1) of Jehovah' s word (figuratively)
1b) hunger (of individuals)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H7456
Usage:
This word is used 101 times:
Genesis 12:10: "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there;"
Genesis 12:10: "to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."
Genesis 26:1: "And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that"
Genesis 26:1: "in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days"
Genesis 41:27: "shall be seven years of famine."
Genesis 41:30: "after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land"
Genesis 41:30: "shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;"
Genesis 41:31: "in the land by reason of that famine following; for"
Genesis 41:36: "to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt;"
Genesis 41:36: "that the land perish not through the famine."
Genesis 41:50: "sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter"
Genesis 41:54: "And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said:"
Genesis 41:54: "according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all"
Genesis 41:56: " And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened"
Genesis 41:56: "the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt."
Genesis 41:57: "Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands."
Genesis 42:5: "corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 43:1: " And the famine was sore in the land."
Genesis 45:6: "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five"
Genesis 45:11: "yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all"
Genesis 47:4: "have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan:"
Genesis 47:13: "in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt"
Genesis 47:13: "of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine."
Genesis 47:20: "every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became"
Exodus 16:3: "to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
Deuteronomy 28:48: "which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all"
Deuteronomy 32:24: "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth"
Ruth 1:1: "when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah"
2 Samuel 21:1: "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after"
2 Samuel 24:13: "him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee"
1 Kings 8:37: "If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,"
1 Kings 18:2: "unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria."
2 Kings 4:38: "And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting"
2 Kings 6:25: "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until"
2 Kings 7:4: "we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if"
2 Kings 8:1: "for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land"
2 Kings 25:3: "And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed"
2 Chronicles 6:28: "If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if"
2 Chronicles 20:9: "us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house,"
2 Chronicles 32:11: "persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God"
Nehemiah 5:3: "and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth."
Nehemiah 9:15: "And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock"
Job 5:20: " In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword."
Psalms 33:19: "their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine."
Psalms 105:16: "Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole staff of bread."
Isaiah 5:13: "because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst."
Isaiah 14:30: "in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant."
Isaiah 51:19: "shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort"
Jeremiah 5:12: "us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:"
