Lexical Definition

‎רָעֵב‎ râʻêb (raw-abe') hungry ^H:A
from ‎רָעֵב‎

hunger bitten, hungry.

• hungry (more or less intensely)

1) hungry
1a) hungry
1b) hungry man (subst)
1c) of failing strength (fig)

See Greek: ἐνδεής

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רָעֵב‎ adjective hungry; — absolute ‎׳‎‎ר‎ 2Sam 17:29 +; feminine singular ‎רְעֵבָה‎ Ps 107:9; Prov 27:7 masculine plural ‎רְעֵבִים‎ 1Sam 2:5 +; — hungry (sometimes + ‎צָמֵא‎, ‎עָיֵף‎), 2Sam 17:29; 2Kgs 7:12; Isa 8:21; Prov 25:21; Ps 107:5 ‎נֶפֶשׁ רְעֵבָה‎ vPs 107:9; Prov 27:7 as substantive singular a hungry man Isa 29:8; Isa 32:6; Isa 58:7; Isa 58:10; Ezek 18:7; Ezek 18:16; Job 5:5 (Bev^{JPhil. xxvi. 304} proposes ‎רָעָב‎, compare Ezek 7:15) Ezek 22:7, plural 1Sam 2:5 (opposed to ‎שְׂבֵעִים בַּלֶּחֶם‎), Job 24:10 (|| ‎עָרוֺם‎), Ps 107:36; Ps 146:7 ‎יְהִירָֿעֵב אֹנוֺ‎ Job 18:12 (figurative) his strength grows hungry, i.e. fails (ᵑ9 Ew Di and others); ᵑ6 De Bu Du (reading ‎אָוֶן‎) al. his trouble grows hungry (i.e. ravenous for him), but ‎׳‎‎ר‎ never elsewhere in this sense.

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