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רְעָבוֹן

re.a.von

famine

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Strong’s H7459Noun, masculine3 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the hunger of2

famine1

In the text

Genesis 42:19רַעֲבוֹן
If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
Psalm 37:19רְעָבוֹן
In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

רְעָבוֹן n.[m.] hunger, lack of food, famine

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.