Lexical Definition

‎רָעָב‎ râʻâb (raw-awb') famine ^H:N-M
from ‎רָעֵב‎

dearth, famine, [phrase] famished, hunger.

• hunger (more or less extensive)

1) famine, hunger
1a) famine (in land, nation)
1a1) of Jehovah's word (fig)
1b) hunger (of individuals)

See Greek: λιμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רָעָב‎₁₀₁ noun masculine^{Gen 26:1} famine, hunger; — absolute ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Gen 12:10 +; suffix ‎רְעָבָם‎ Neh 9:15

1. famine (in land, nation or city), Gen 12:10; Gen 26:1; Gen 41:30; Gen 41:31; Exod 16:3; 2Sam 21:1; 2Sam 24:13 = 2Kgs 4:38; 2Kgs 6:25 +; ‎׳‎‎שְׁנֵי( הָ)ר‎ Gen 41:27; Gen 41:30; Gen 41:36, ‎׳‎‎שְׁנַת ר‎ vGen 41:50, but also ‎׳‎‎שָׁנִים ר‎ [‎שָׁלוֺשׁ‎] ‎שֶׁבַע‎ 2Sam 24:13 (on gender see Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 103}) = 1Chr 21:12 with ‎חזק‎ (be) severe Gen 47:56; Gen 47:57; 1Kgs 18:2; 1Kgs 25:3 = Jer 52:6, ‎חזק עַל‎ Gen 47:20 with ‎כָּבֵד‎ Gen 12:10; Gen 47:4; Gen 47:13 ‎גָּדוֺל‎ 2Kgs 6:25 ‎׳‎‎זַלְעֲפוֺת ר‎ Lam 5:10 ‎׳‎‎מְזֵי ר‎ Deut 32:24 + Isa 5:13 (see [‎מָזֶה‎]), ‎׳‎‎תַּחֲלוּאֵי ר‎ Jer 14:18, ‎׳‎‎חַלֲלֵי ר‎ Lam 5:10, ‎׳‎‎אֲסֻפֵי ר‎ Ezek 34:29 ‎׳‎‎חִצֵּי הָר‎ Ezek 5:16 as scourge of ‎׳‎‎י‎ (+ ‎חֶרֶב‎, ‎דֶּבֶר‎, etc.; especially Jeremiah, Ezekiel), Jer 5:12; Jer 11:22; Jer 14:12; Jer 21:7; Jer 21:9; Ezek 5:2; Ezek 6:11; Ezek 6:12 +, etc.; figurative of lack of ‎׳‎‎י‎'s word Amos 8:11.

2. hunger, of individual Jer 32:9; Deut 28:48 (+ ‎צָמָא‎, etc.), 2Chr 32:11 (+ id.).

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