Hebrew verb · H7456
רָעֵב
raebraw-abe'
be hungry
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râʻêb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7456is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7456
to hunger
The King James renders it: (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
raeb is rendered "be hungry". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:55When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
Genesis 41:55וַתִּרְעַב֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it was hungry2
- he will be hungry2
- and he caused to hunger you1
- and they are hungry1
- he allows to hunger1
- he is hungry1
- I will be hungry1
- it will be hungry1
- they will be hungry1
- we will be hungry1
- you will be hungry1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רָעֵב | raeb | hungry | Uses20 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶ֭רְעַב1
- וַיַּרְעִבֶךָ֒1
- וְרָעֵ֔ב1
- וְרָעֵ֑בוּ1
- וַתִּרְעַב֙1
- יִרְעַ֜ב1
- יִרְעָֽב׃1
- יִרְעָ֙בוּ֙1
- יַרְעִ֣יב1
- נִרְעָ֖ב1
- רָעֵב֙1
- תִרְעָֽב׃1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp2ms1Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HC/Vqp3cp
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqi1cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Genesis
one use
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
- וַתִּרְעַב֙vatiravHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was hungry
Deuteronomy
one use
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- וַיַּרְעִבֶךָ֒vaiyarivekhaHc/Vhw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he caused to hunger you
Psalms
two uses
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- וְרָעֵ֑בוּveraevuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they are hungry
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
- אֶ֭רְעַבʾeravverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be hungry
Proverbs
three uses
Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
- יִרְעָֽב׃yiravverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be hungry
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- יַרְעִ֣יבyarivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he allows to hunger
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
- תִרְעָֽב׃tiravverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he will be hungry
Isaiah
five uses
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- יִרְעַ֜בyiravverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be hungry
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
- וְרָעֵ֔בveraevHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it was hungry
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- רָעֵב֙raevverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is hungry
They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
- יִרְעָ֙בוּ֙yiravuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be hungry
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- תִּרְעָ֔בוּtiravuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be hungry
Jeremiah
one use
and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
- נִרְעָ֖בniravverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will be hungry
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.