Hebrew adjective · H7457
רָעֵב
raebraw-abe'
hungry
20 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 H7457is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7457
hungry (more or less intensely)
The King James renders it: hunger bitten, hungry.
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 "hungry". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
1 Samuel 2:5וּרְעֵבִ֖ים
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
- hungry10
- and hungry3
- to hungry2
- to the hungry2
- and from hungry1
- for the hungry1
- the 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 | be hungry | Uses13 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 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
- לְרָעֵ֣ב2
- לָֽרָעֵב֙2
- הָרָעֵ֜ב1
- וּ֝מֵרָעֵ֗ב1
- וְרָעֵ֑ב1
- וּרְעֵבִ֖ים1
- וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים1
- לָרְעֵבִ֑ים1
- רָעֵ֛ב1
- רָ֘עֵ֤ב1
- רָעֵ֥ב1
- רָעֵ֣ב1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular5HAamsa
- adjective · masculine plural3HAampa
- adjective · feminine singular2HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural2HC/Aampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular2HRd/Aamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HC/R/Aamsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural1HRd/Aampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
1 Samuel
one use
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- וּרְעֵבִ֖יםureevimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and hungry
2 Samuel
one use
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- רָעֵ֛בraevadjective · masculine singulartagged: hungry
2 Kings
one use
So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
- רְעֵבִ֣יםreevimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: hungry
Job
four uses
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- רָ֘עֵ֤בraevadjective · masculine singulartagged: hungry
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- רָעֵ֥בraevadjective · masculine singulartagged: hungry
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- וּ֝מֵרָעֵ֗בumeraevconjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and from hungry
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
- וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗יםureevimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and hungry
Psalms
four uses
They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
- רְעֵבִ֥יםreevimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: hungry
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- רְ֝עֵבָהreevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: hungry
He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
- רְעֵבִ֑יםreevimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: hungry
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- לָרְעֵבִ֑יםlareevimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to the hungry
Proverbs
two uses
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
- רָעֵ֣בraevadjective · masculine singulartagged: hungry
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
- רְ֝עֵבָ֗הreevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: 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.
- וְרָעֵ֑בveraevconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and hungry
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
- הָרָעֵ֜בharaevthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the hungry
For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
- רָעֵ֔בraevadjective · masculine singulartagged: hungry
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- לָֽרָעֵב֙laraevpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the hungry
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
- לָֽרָעֵב֙laraevpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the hungry
Ezekiel
two uses
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- לְרָעֵ֣בleraevpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to hungry
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- לְרָעֵ֣בleraevpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.