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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- Jeremiah 16:4 וּבָֽרָעָב֙
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
- Jeremiah 18:21 לָרָעָ֗ב
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 21:7 הָרָעָ֗ב
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
- Jeremiah 21:9 וּבָרָעָ֣ב
Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
- Jeremiah 24:10 הָרָעָ֣ב
And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
- Jeremiah 27:8 וּבָרָעָ֨ב
As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
- Jeremiah 27:13 בָּרָעָ֣ב
Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
- Jeremiah 29:17 הָרָעָ֣ב
this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
- Jeremiah 29:18 בָּרָעָ֣ב
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
- Jeremiah 32:24 וְהָרָעָ֖ב
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
- Jeremiah 32:36 וּבָרָעָ֥ב
Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
- Jeremiah 34:17 הָרָעָ֔ב
Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 38:2 בָּרָעָ֣ב
“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
- Jeremiah 38:9 הָֽרָעָ֔ב
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Jeremiah 42:16 וְהָרָעָ֞ב
then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
- Jeremiah 42:17 בָּרָעָ֣ב
So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
- Jeremiah 42:22 בָּרָעָ֥ב
Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- Jeremiah 44:12 בָּֽרָעָב֙וּבָרָעָ֖ב
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- Jeremiah 44:13 בָּרָעָ֖ב
I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,
- Jeremiah 44:18 וּבָרָעָ֖ב
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
- Jeremiah 44:27 וּבָרָעָ֖ב
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
- Jeremiah 52:6 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.
- Lamentations 2:19 בְּרָעָ֖ב
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- Lamentations 4:9 רָעָ֑ב
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- Lamentations 5:10 רָעָֽב׃
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Ezekiel 5:12 וּבָֽרָעָב֙
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 5:16 הָרָעָ֨בוְרָעָב֙
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- Ezekiel 5:17 רָעָ֞ב
I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
- Ezekiel 6:11 בָּרָעָ֥ב
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
- Ezekiel 6:12 בָּרָעָ֖ב
He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
- Ezekiel 7:15 וְהָרָעָ֖ברָעָ֥ב
The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
- Ezekiel 12:16 מֵרָעָ֣ב
But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 14:13 רָעָ֔ב
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 14:21 וְרָעָ֞ב
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
- Ezekiel 34:29 רָעָב֙
And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
- Ezekiel 36:29 רָעָֽב׃
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
- Ezekiel 36:30 רָעָ֖ב
I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.
- Amos 8:11 רָעָ֖ברָעָ֤ב
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.