TBESH · H7458
רָעָב · ra.av · famine
1) famine, hunger 1a) famine (in land, nation) 1a1) of Jehovah's word (fig) 1b) hunger (of individuals)
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ra.av H7458
רָעָב (ra.av) means “famine” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
רָעָב Hebrew · H7458 101 tagged occurrences in 88 verses
Pronunciation guide: raw-awb' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H7456 (רָעֵב); hunger (more or less extensive)
KJV glosses: dearth, famine, [phrase] famished, hunger.
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How translators render H7458
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and famine | 20 |
| famine | 15 |
| the famine | 12 |
| of famine | 10 |
| by famine | 8 |
| a famine | 5 |
| or famine | 5 |
| in famine | 3 |
| and the famine | 2 |
| from hunger | 2 |
| to famine | 2 |
| another famine | 1 |
| are starving | 1 |
| destined for famine | 1 |
| during the famine | 1 |
| for the famine | 1 |
| from our hunger | 1 |
| from the famine | 1 |
| in the famine | 1 |
| in their hunger | 1 |
| now the famine | 1 |
| of hunger | 1 |
| on account of famine | 1 |
| the one | 1 |
| there was a famine | 1 |
| to starve | 1 |
| when the famine | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and the famine | 8 |
| by the famine | 8 |
| famine | 8 |
| of famine | 8 |
| and by the famine | 6 |
| the famine | 6 |
| for the famine | 4 |
| with hunger | 4 |
| and famine | 2 |
| and there was a famine | 2 |
| by famine | 2 |
| for a famine | 2 |
| in famine | 2 |
| of the famine | 2 |
| to the famine | 2 |
| with famine | 2 |
| a dearth | 1 |
| a famine | 1 |
| against thee in hunger | 1 |
| and by famine | 1 |
| and from the famine | 1 |
| and of the famine | 1 |
| and the dearth | 1 |
| and to the famine | 1 |
| and with famine | 1 |
| and with the famine | 1 |
| because of the dearth | 1 |
| because that the famine | 1 |
| because the famine | 1 |
| famished | 1 |
| for hunger | 1 |
| for their hunger | 1 |
| from the famine | 1 |
| hunger | 1 |
| if there be dearth | 1 |
| neither shall ye have famine | 1 |
| no famine | 1 |
| nor famine | 1 |
| not a famine | 1 |
| not through the famine | 1 |
| of dearth | 1 |
| of that famine | 1 |
| or famine | 1 |
| that there was a famine | 1 |
| then the famine | 1 |
| then there was a famine | 1 |
| there for the famine | 1 |
| upon you famine | 1 |
| with the famine | 1 |
Verses containing H7458
Page 1 of 2. 88 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 12:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
Read word by word - Genesis 26:1
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:30
· BSB · 2 occurrences
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:36
· BSB · 2 occurrences
This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
Read word by word - Genesis 41:50
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:54
· BSB · 2 occurrences
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:56
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:57
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Read word by word - Genesis 42:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
Read word by word - Genesis 43:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Read word by word - Genesis 45:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Read word by word - Genesis 45:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Read word by word - Genesis 47:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
Read word by word - Genesis 47:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
Read word by word - Genesis 47:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
Read word by word - Exodus 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:48
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Read word by word - Ruth 1:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 21:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 20:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 32:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
Read word by word - Nehemiah 5:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
Read word by word - Nehemiah 9:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.
Read word by word - Job 5:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
Read word by word - Psalms 33:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Read word by word - Psalms 105:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
Read word by word - Isaiah 14:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 11:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:15
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 15:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
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