To starve
רָזָהStrong’s H7329razah (ra-zah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Razah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be made lean” and “make lean”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.”
Meaning
- To be or become or grow lean(Qal) to make lean · (Niphal) to be made lean
How it's translated
- it will be made lean 1
- he will make lean 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
רָזָה razah · to starve
1) to be or become or grow lean 1a) (Qal) to make lean 1b) (Niphal) to be made lean
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “starve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STARVE, verb intransitive
[G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]
- To perish; to be destroyed. [In this general sense, obsolete.]
- To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.
- To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]
- To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
All definitions and other forms of “starve”
STARVE, verb transitive
- To kill with hunger.
- To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.
- To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.
- To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.]
- To deprive of force or vigor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.