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:
Jeremiah 11:22: "by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:"
Jeremiah 14:12: "them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence."
Jeremiah 14:13: "the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace"
Jeremiah 14:15: "yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land;"
Jeremiah 14:15: "in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed."
Jeremiah 14:16: "in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury"
Jeremiah 14:18: "into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and"
Jeremiah 15:2: "and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity,"
Jeremiah 15:2: "are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."
Jeremiah 16:4: "and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven,"
Jeremiah 18:21: "deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword;"
Jeremiah 21:7: "the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 21:9: "city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to"
Jeremiah 24:10: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off"
Jeremiah 27:8: "saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand."
Jeremiah 27:13: "thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken"
Jeremiah 29:17: "upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs,"
Jeremiah 29:18: "And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all"
Jeremiah 32:24: "against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken"
Jeremiah 32:36: "of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;"
Jeremiah 34:17: "to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms"
Jeremiah 38:2: "city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans"
Jeremiah 38:9: "the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no"
Jeremiah 42:16: "shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid,"
Jeremiah 42:17: "there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain"
Jeremiah 42:22: "therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither"
Jeremiah 44:12: "of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto"
Jeremiah 44:12: "from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment,"
Jeremiah 44:13: "as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:"
Jeremiah 44:18: "unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine."
Jeremiah 44:27: "of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end"
Jeremiah 52:6: "month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no"
Lamentations 2:19: "the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street."
Lamentations 4:9: "are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away,"
Lamentations 5:10: "like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Ezekiel 5:12: "A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall"
Ezekiel 5:16: "upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which"
Ezekiel 5:16: "I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff"
Ezekiel 5:17: "So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood"
Ezekiel 6:11: "for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."
Ezekiel 6:12: "and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury"
Ezekiel 7:15: "The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field"
Ezekiel 7:15: "shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour"
Ezekiel 12:16: "men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence;"
Ezekiel 14:13: "the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from"
Ezekiel 14:21: "upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off"
Ezekiel 34:29: "no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame"
Ezekiel 36:29: "the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon"
Ezekiel 36:30: "ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen."
Amos 8:11: "the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread,"
