רָעָב
ra.av
1. famine, hunger
a. famine (in land, nation)
1. of Jehovah's word (fig)
b. hunger (of individuals)
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Concordance 88 verses
- Genesis 12:10 רָעָ֖בהָרָעָ֖ב
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
- Genesis 26:1 רָעָב֙הָרָעָ֣ב
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Genesis 41:27 רָעָֽב׃
Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.
- Genesis 41:30 רָעָב֙הָרָעָ֖ב
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
- Genesis 41:31 הָרָעָ֥ב
The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
- Genesis 41:36 הָרָעָ֔בבָּרָעָֽב׃
This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
- Genesis 41:50 הָרָעָ֑ב
Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
- Genesis 41:54 הָרָעָב֙רָעָב֙
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:56 וְהָרָעָ֣בהָֽרָעָ֖ב
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:57 הָרָעָ֖ב
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- Genesis 42:5 הָרָעָ֖ב
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 43:1 וְהָרָעָ֖ב
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 45:6 הָרָעָ֖ב
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- Genesis 45:11 רָעָ֑ב
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Genesis 47:4 הָרָעָ֖ב
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
- Genesis 47:13 הָרָעָ֖בהָרָעָֽב׃
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
- Genesis 47:20 הָרָעָ֑ב
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
- Exodus 16:3 בָּרָעָֽב׃ס
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- Deuteronomy 28:48 בְּרָעָ֧ב
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 רָעָ֛ב
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- Ruth 1:1 רָעָ֖ב
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 רָעָב֩
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 2 Samuel 24:13 רָעָ֣ב׀
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
- 1 Kings 8:37 רָעָ֞ב
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- 1 Kings 18:2 וְהָרָעָ֖ב
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
- 2 Kings 4:38 וְהָרָעָ֣ב
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
- 2 Kings 6:25 רָעָ֤ב
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- 2 Kings 7:4 וְהָרָעָ֤ב
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
- 2 Kings 8:1 לָֽרָעָ֔ב
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”
- 2 Kings 25:3 הָרָעָ֖ב
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 רָעָ֗ב
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 רָעָ֞ב
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- 2 Chronicles 20:9 וְרָעָב֒
‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 בְּרָעָ֥ב
Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
- Nehemiah 5:3 בָּרָעָֽב׃
Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
- Nehemiah 9:15 לִרְעָבָ֔ם
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
- Job 5:20 בְּ֭רָעָב
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
- Psalms 33:19 בָּרָעָֽב׃
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
- Psalms 105:16 רָ֭עָב
He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- Isaiah 5:13 רָעָ֔ב
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Isaiah 14:30 בָֽרָעָב֙
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
- Isaiah 51:19 וְהָרָעָ֥ב
These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
- Jeremiah 5:12 וְרָעָ֖ב
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- Jeremiah 11:22 בָּרָעָֽב׃
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
- Jeremiah 14:12 וּבָרָעָ֣ב
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
- Jeremiah 14:13 וְרָעָ֖ב
“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
- Jeremiah 14:15 וְרָעָ֔בוּבָֽרָעָב֙
Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
- Jeremiah 14:16 הָרָעָ֣ב
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
- Jeremiah 14:18 רָעָ֑ב
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
- Jeremiah 15:2 לָֽרָעָב֙לָֽרָעָ֔ב
If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’