STRONGS NUMBER H7458


Word Summary
raab: famine, hunger
Original Word: רָעָב
Transliteration: 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 ׳ר12:10 +; suffix רְעָבָםNehemiah 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 ׳שְׁנַת41:50, but also ר ׳שָׁנִים‎ [שָׁלוֺשׁ‎] שֶׁבַע2 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 חזקGenesis 47:20; with כָּבֵד12:10; 47:4, 13; גָּדוֺל2 Kings 6:25; ר ׳זַלְעֲפוֺתLamentations 5:10; ר ׳מְזֵיDeuteronomy 32:24 + Isaiah 5:13 (see [מָזֶה‎]), ר ׳תַּחֲלוּאֵיJeremiah 14:18, ר ׳חַלֲלֵיLamentations 5:10, ר ׳אֲסֻפֵיEzekiel 34:29; הָר ׳חִצֵּי5:16; 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.).