רָעָב

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 12:10

• רָעָ֖בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine
• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Genesis 26:1

• רָעָב֙raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine
• הָרָעָ֣בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:27

• רָעָֽב׃raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

Genesis 41:30

• רָעָב֙raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine
• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Genesis 41:31

• הָרָעָ֥בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

Genesis 41:36

• הָרָעָ֔בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine
• בָּרָעָֽב׃baraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Genesis 41:50

• הָרָעָ֑בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

• הָרָעָב֙haraavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine
• רָעָב֙raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:56

• וְהָרָעָ֣בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine
• הָֽרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 41:57

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:5

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 43:1

• וְהָרָעָ֖בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Genesis 45:6

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

Genesis 45:11

• רָעָ֑בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 47:4

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

Genesis 47:13

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine
• הָרָעָֽב׃haraavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

Genesis 47:20

• הָרָעָ֑בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Exodus 16:3

• בָּרָעָֽב׃ סbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the hunger

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:48

• בְּרָעָ֧בberaavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in hunger

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:24

• רָעָ֛בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

Ruth 1:1

• רָעָ֖בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine

During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 21:1

• רָעָב֩raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

2 Samuel 24:13

• רָעָ֣ב׀raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

1 Kings 8:37

• רָעָ֞בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

1 Kings 18:2

• וְהָרָעָ֖בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4:38

• וְהָרָעָ֣בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 6:25

• רָעָ֤בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine

If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

2 Kings 7:4

• וְהָרָעָ֤בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

2 Kings 8:1

• לָֽרָעָ֔בlaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the famine

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

2 Kings 25:3

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 21:12

• רָעָ֗בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

2 Chronicles 6:28

• רָעָ֞בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’

2 Chronicles 20:9

• וְרָעָב֒veraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’

2 Chronicles 32:11

• בְּרָעָ֥בberaavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by hunger

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 5:3

• בָּרָעָֽב׃baraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the famine

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9:15

• לִרְעָבָ֔םliravampreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: for hunger their

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Job 5:20

• בְּ֭רָעָבberaopreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in famine

to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Psalms 33:19

• בָּרָעָֽב׃baraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the famine

He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

Psalms 105:16

• רָ֭עָבraonoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 5:13

• רָעָ֔בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: hunger

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

Isaiah 14:30

• בָֽרָעָב֙varaavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

Isaiah 51:19

• וְהָרָעָ֥בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

Jeremiah 5:12

• וְרָעָ֖בveraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

Jeremiah 11:22

• בָּרָעָֽב׃baraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”

Jeremiah 14:12

• וּבָרָעָ֣בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 14:13

• וְרָעָ֖בveraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine

Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!

Jeremiah 14:15

• וְרָעָ֔בveraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine
• וּבָֽרָעָב֙uvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

Jeremiah 14:16

• הָרָעָ֣בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Jeremiah 14:18

• רָעָ֑בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

Jeremiah 15:2

• לָֽרָעָב֙laraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the famine
• לָֽרָעָ֔בlaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the famine

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

Jeremiah 16:4

• וּבָֽרָעָב֙uvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 18:21

• לָרָעָ֗בlaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the famine

‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’

Jeremiah 21:7

• הָרָעָ֗בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.

Jeremiah 21:9

• וּבָרָעָ֣בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

Jeremiah 24:10

• הָרָעָ֣בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

Jeremiah 27:8

• וּבָרָעָ֨בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the famine

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27:13

• בָּרָעָ֣בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

Jeremiah 29:17

• הָרָעָ֣בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.

Jeremiah 29:18

• בָּרָעָ֣בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the famine

See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!

Jeremiah 32:24

• וְהָרָעָ֖בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

Jeremiah 32:36

• וּבָרָעָ֥בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:17

• הָרָעָ֔בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.

Jeremiah 38:2

• בָּרָעָ֣בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 38:9

• הָֽרָעָ֔בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

Jeremiah 42:16

• וְהָרָעָ֞בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine

So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

Jeremiah 42:17

• בָּרָעָ֣בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

Jeremiah 42:22

• בָּרָעָ֥בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.

Jeremiah 44:12

• בָּֽרָעָב֙baraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine
• וּבָרָעָ֖בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,

Jeremiah 44:13

• בָּרָעָ֖בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

Jeremiah 44:18

• וּבָרָעָ֖בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.

Jeremiah 44:27

• וּבָרָעָ֖בuvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Jeremiah 52:6

• הָרָעָ֖בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Lamentations 2:19

• בְּרָעָ֖בberaavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by hunger

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Lamentations 4:9

• רָעָ֑בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: hunger

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Lamentations 5:10

• רָעָֽב׃raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: hunger

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 5:12

• וּבָֽרָעָב֙uvaraavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the famine

When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

Ezekiel 5:16

• הָרָעָ֨בharaavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the famine
• וְרָעָב֙veraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 5:17

• רָעָ֞בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

Ezekiel 6:11

• בָּרָעָ֥בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

Ezekiel 6:12

• בָּרָעָ֖בbaraavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the famine

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Ezekiel 7:15

• וְהָרָעָ֖בveharaavconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the famine
• רָעָ֥בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 12:16

• מֵרָעָ֣בmeraavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from famine

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 14:13

• רָעָ֔בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

Ezekiel 14:21

• וְרָעָ֞בveraavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and famine

And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.

Ezekiel 34:29

• רָעָב֙raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

Ezekiel 36:29

• רָעָֽב׃raavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

Ezekiel 36:30

• רָעָ֖בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: famine

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Amos 8:11

• רָעָ֖בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine
• רָעָ֤בraavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a famine