Lexicon raeb: to be hungry Original Word: רָעֵבPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: raeb Phonetic Spelling: (raw-abe') Short Definition: hungry NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be hungry NASB Translationfamished (1), gets hungry (1), hunger (3), hungry (6), suffer hunger (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs רָעֵב verb be hungry (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il and derivatives; Assyrian rûbatu, hunger; Arabic  be roomy, voracious,  desire vehemently; Ethiopic  be hungry); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר Isaiah 9:19; Isaiah 44:12; 3plural רָעֵ֑בוּ Psalm 34:11; Imperfect3masculine singular יִרְעַב Isaiah 8:21, 1plural נִרְעַב Jeremiah 42:14, etc.; — be hungry Isaiah 8:21; Genesis 41:55 (E; of land, = have famine), Jeremiah 42:14 (לַלֶּחֶם), Isaiah 49:10 ("" צמא), Isaiah 65:13 ("" id.; opposed to אכל), Psalm 50:12 if I should be hungry (of ׳י), Proverbs 6:30; Proverbs 19:15. Hiph`il allow one to hunger, subject ׳י: Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּרְעִבֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 8:3 (opposed to וַיַּאֲִכלְךָ), יַרְעִיב נֶפֶשׁ Proverbs 10:3.
Strong's suffer to famish, be, have, suffer, hunger A primitive root; to hunger -- (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry). |
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