Strong's Hebrew · H7458

רָעָב

râʻâb · raw-awb'

dearth, famine, [phrase] famished, hunger.

Definition

hunger (more or less extensive)

Derivation

from H7456 (רָעֵב);

Appears 101 times in Scripture

Genesis 12:10

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.

Genesis 41:27

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.

Genesis 26:1

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.

Genesis 41:31

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Genesis 41:30

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.

Genesis 41:36

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.”

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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).

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