Lexical Summary raab: famine, hunger Original Word: רָעָבTransliteration: raab Phonetic Spelling: (raw-awb') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: famine, hunger Meaning: famine, hunger Strong's Concordance dearth, famine, famished, hunger From ra'eb; hunger (more or less extensive) -- dearth, famine, + famished, hunger. see HEBREW ra'eb Brown-Driver-Briggs H7458. raab רָעָב101 noun masculineGenesis 26:1 famine, hunger; — absolute ׳ר 12:10 +; suffix רְעָבָם Nehemiah 9:15; 1 famine (in land, nation or city), Genesis 12:10; 26:1; 41:30-31, Exodus 16:3; 2 Samuel 21:1; 24:13 = 2 Kings 4:38; 6:25 +; הָ)ר ׳שְׁנֵי( Genesis 41:27, 30, 36, ר ׳שְׁנַת 41:50, but also ר ׳שָׁנִים [שָׁלוֺשׁ] שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13 (on Gender see AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 103) = 1 Chronicles 21:12; with חזק (be) severe Genesis 47:56; Genesis 47:57; 1 Kings 18:2; 1Ki 25:3= Jeremiah 52:6, עַל חזק Genesis 47:20; with כָּבֵד 12:10; 47:4, 13; גָּדוֺל 2 Kings 6:25; ר ׳זַלְעֲפוֺת Lamentations 5:10; ר ׳מְזֵי Deuteronomy 32:24 + Isaiah 5:13 (see [מָזֶה]), ר ׳תַּחֲלוּאֵי Jeremiah 14:18, ר ׳חַלֲלֵי Lamentations 5:10, ר ׳אֲסֻפֵי Ezekiel 34:29; הָר ׳חִצֵּי 5:16; as scourge of ׳י (+ דֶּבֶר חֶרֶב,, etc.; especially Jeremiah, Ezekiel), Jeremiah 5:12; 11:22; 14:12; 21:7, 9; Ezekiel 5:2; 6:11-12, +, etc.; figurative of lack of ׳יs word Amos 8:11. 2 hunger, of individual Jeremiah 32:9; Deuteronomy 28:48 (+ צָמָא, etc.), 2 Chronicles 32:11 (+ id.). |
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