raev · hungry

What it means

raev (רָעֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hungry”.

Suffering hunger.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone without food; God satisfies him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×2

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger; even the barren woman has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.

• 2 Samuel 17:29

  honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd; they brought them near to David and to the people who were with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

• 2 Kings 7:12

  The king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what Aram has done to us. They know that we are hungry, and they have gone out of the camp to hide in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will seize them alive and get into the city.’”

• Job 5:5

  His harvest the hungry eat, and from among the thorns they take it, and the trap pants after their wealth.

• Job 18:12

  His vigor is hungry, and calamity is ready at his side.

• Job 22:7

  You did not give the weary water to drink, and from the hungry you withheld bread.

• Job 24:10

  Naked they go about without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaf.

• Psalms 107:5

  Hungry and also thirsty, their soul within them grew faint.

• Psalms 107:9

  For he has satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul he has filled with good.

• Psalms 107:36

  And he makes the hungry dwell there, and they establish a city to dwell in.

• Psalms 146:7

  who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry. YHWH sets free the prisoners;

• Proverbs 25:21

  If the one who hates you is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

• Proverbs 27:7

  A sated soul tramples the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

• Isaiah 8:21

  And he will pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it will happen when he is hungry that he will be enraged and curse his king and his Elohim, and turn his face upward.

• Isaiah 29:8

  And it will be as when the hungry man dreams, and look, he is eating, and he awakes, and his soul is empty; and as when the thirsty man dreams, and look, he is drinking, and he awakes, and look, he is faint, and his soul longs; so will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Isaiah 58:7

  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the wandering afflicted home; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Isaiah 58:10

  and if you offer your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom will be like noon.

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and does not oppress anyone, restores his pledge for a debt, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 18:16

  and does not oppress anyone, does not take a pledge, and commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;