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# רָעָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7458

**famine** — used 101 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

famine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7458/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָעָב: n.m. famine, hunger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7458/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 26:1 famine, hunger;—abs. ר׳ Gn 12:10 +; sf. רְעָבָם Ne 9:15; famine (in land, nation or city), Gn 12:10; 26:1; 41:30, 31 Ex 16:3 2 S 21:1; 24:13 = 2 K 4:38; 6:25 +; שְׁנֵי(הָ)ר׳ Gn 41:27, 30, 36, שְׁנַת ר׳ v 50, but also שָׁנִים ר׳ \[שָׁלוֹשׁ\] שֶׁבַע 2 S 24:13 (on gender v. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 103) = 1 Ch 21:12; c. חזק (be) severe Gn 41:56, 57 1 K 18:2; 2 K 25:3 = Je 52:6, חזק עַל Gn 47:20; c. כָבֵד 12:10; 47:4, 13; גָּדוֹל 2 K 6:25; זַעלעֲפוֹת ר׳ La 5:10; מְזֵי ר׳ Dt 32:24 + Is 5:13 (v. \[מָזֶה\]), תַּחֲלוּאֵי ר׳ Je 14:18, חַלֲלֵי ר׳ La 5:9, אֲסֻפֵי ר׳ Ez 34:29; חִצֵּי הָר׳ 5:16; as scourge of י׳ (+ חֶרֶב, דֶּבֶ, etc.; especially Je Ez), Je 5:12; 11:22; 14:12; 21:7, 9 Ez 5:2; 6:11, 12 +, etc.; fig. of lack of י׳’s word Am 8:11. hunger, of individual Je 38:9 Dt 28:48 (+ צָסָא, etc.), 2 Ch 32:11 (+ id.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 2 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: famine (78); a famine (9); of famine (6).

## In the verses

[Genesis 43:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.1/#tree)

וְהָרָעָ֖ב כָּבֵ֥ד בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and the famine \[was\].heavy in the land

*JPS 1917:* And the famine was sore in the land.

[Lamentations 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/#tree)

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* skin our like an.oven they.have.grown.hot because of \[the\].burning.heat(s) of.hunger

*JPS 1917:* Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7458.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7458/): 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).