Strong's Hebrew · H7456
H7456 râʻêb
רָעֵב
raw-abe'
be hungry
râʻêb appears 13 times in Scripture, including Genesis 41:55 and Deuteronomy 8:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to hunger
In the King James Version
(suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 13 times in Scripture
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.”
“He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.”
“Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.”
“Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.”
“When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.””
“They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.”
“They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.”
“The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.”
“Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.”
“They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).