H7457Adjective20 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- 1 Samuel 2:5וּרְעֵבִים
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Job 5:5רָעֵב
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Psalm 107:5רְעֵבִים
They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
- Proverbs 27:7רְעֵבָה
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
- Isaiah 8:21וְרָעֵב
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Ezekiel 18:7לְרָעֵב
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.