Strong's Hebrew · H7456
רָעֵב
râʻêb · raw-abe'
(suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
Definition
to hunger
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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).