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# רָעֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7457

**hungry** — used 20 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

hungry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָעֵב²: adj. hungry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. hungry;—abs. ר׳ 2 S 17:29 +; fs. רְעֵבָה ψ 107:9 Pr 27:7; mpl. רְעֵבִים 1 S 2:5 +;—hungry (sometimes + עָמֵא, עָיֵף), 2 S 17:29 2 K 7:12 Is 8:21 Pr 25:21 ψ 107:5; נֶפֶשׁ רְעֵבָה v 9 Pr 27:7; as subst. sg. a hungry man Is 29:8; 32:6; 58:7, 10 Ez 18:7, 16 Jb 5:5 (BevJPhil. xxvi. 304 proposes רָעָב, cf. Ez 7:15) 22:7, pl. 1 S 2:5 (opp. שְׂבֵעִים בַּלֶּהֶם), Jb 24:10 (‖ עָרוֹם), ψ 107:36; 146:7; יְהִי־רָעֵב אֹנוֹ Jb 18:12 (fig.) his strength grows hungry, i.e. fails (𝔙 Ew Di al.); 𝔖 De Bu Du (reading אָוֶן) al. his trouble grows hungry (i.e. ravenous for him), but ר׳ never elsewhere in this sense.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hungry (9); \[person\] (3); \[is\] hungry (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

[Psalms 107:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/#tree)

רְעֵבִ֥ים גַּם־צְמֵאִ֑ים נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בָּהֶ֥ם תִּתְעַטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* hungry also thirsty life their in them it.was.fainting.away

*JPS 1917:* Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7457.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/): 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).