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# רְעָבוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7459

**hunger** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hunger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7459/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְעָבוֹן: hunger, lack of food, famine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7459/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hunger, lack of food, famine;—cstr. רַעֲבוֹן בָּֽתֵּיכֶם Gn 42:19, 33 (E); abs. בִּימֵי רְעָבוֹן ψ 37:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of famine (1); of the hunger (1); the hunger (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 37:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.19/#tree)

לֹֽא־יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ בְּעֵ֣ת רָעָ֑ה וּבִימֵ֖י רְעָב֣וֹן יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* not they.will.be.ashamed in a.time of.evil and in days of.famine they.will.be.satisfied

*JPS 1917:* They shall not be ashamed in the time of evil; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

[Genesis 42:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.19/#tree)

אִם־כֵּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם אֲחִיכֶ֣ם אֶחָ֔ד יֵאָסֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית מִשְׁמַרְכֶ֑ם וְאַתֶּם֙ לְכ֣וּ הָבִ֔יאוּ שֶׁ֖בֶר רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* if \[are\].honest you brother your one let.him.be.imprisoned in the.house your.custody your and you go take the.grain of.the.hunger your.households your

*JPS 1917:* if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7459/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).