Be hungry
רָעֵבStrong’s H7456raev (ra-ev)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raev is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was hungry”, “hungry” and “caused to hunger you”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.”
Meaning
- To be hungry, be voracious(Qal) to be hungry · (Hiphil) to allow one to be hungry, allow to hunger
How it's translated
- and it was hungry 2
- he will be hungry 2
- and he caused to hunger you 1
- and they are hungry 1
- i will be hungry 1
- he allows to hunger 1
- it will be hungry 1
- he is hungry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Proverbs 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
- Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
- Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- Proverbs 6:30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- Proverbs 10:3The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
- Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Hebrew dictionary
רָעֵב raev · be hungry
1) to be hungry, be voracious 1a) (Qal) to be hungry 1b) (Hiphil) to allow one to be hungry, allow to hunger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hungry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUN'GRY, adjective
Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry
- Having an eager desire.
- Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.
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.