Famine
רְעָבוֹןStrong’s H7459reavon (re-a-von)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Reavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “hunger of” and “famine”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:”
Meaning
- Hunger, lack of food, famine
How it's translated
- hunger of 2
- famine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 42:33And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
- Psalms 37:19They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Hebrew dictionary
רְעָבוֹן reavon · famine
hunger, lack of food, famine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “famine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAM'INE, noun
[Latin fames.]
- Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.“There was a famine in the land” Genesis 12:10
- Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
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.