Hungry
רָעֵבStrong’s H7457raev (ra-ev)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raev is the Hebrew word usually translated “hungry” and “from hungry”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.”
Meaning
- Hungryhungry man (subst) · of failing strength (fig)
How it's translated
- hungry 10
- and hungry 3
- to the hungry 2
- to hungry 2
- and from hungry 1
- the hungry 1
- for the hungry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Job 4
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- 2 Kings 7:12And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
- Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Job 18:12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
- Job 22:7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- Job 24:10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Hebrew dictionary
רָעֵב raev · hungry
1) hungry 1a) hungry 1b) hungry man (subst) 1c) of failing strength (fig)
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.