raev · be hungry

What it means

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

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. To go hungry, or make hungry.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• go hungry ×3
• he is hungry ×3
• be hungry ×2
• hunger ×2
• I were hungry ×1
• are hungry ×1
• was hungry ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he tells you do.”

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does a human being live, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of YHWH does a human being live.

• Psalms 34:10

  Young lions grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek YHWH will not lack any good thing.

• Psalms 50:12

  If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for mine is the world and what fills it.

• Proverbs 6:30

  People do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry;

• Proverbs 10:3

  YHWH will not let the soul of the righteous go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he pushes away.

• Proverbs 19:15

  Laziness casts into a deep sleep, and a slack soul will go hungry.

• 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 9:20

  And they slice on the right and are hungry, and they eat on the left and are not satisfied; each eats the flesh of his own arm:

• Isaiah 44:12

  The craftsman of iron with a tool works it over the coals, and with hammers he shapes it, and works it with his strong arm; also he is hungry, and there is no strength; he does not drink water, and he grows tired.

• Isaiah 49:10

  They will not hunger nor thirst, and neither the scorching ground nor the sun will strike them; for he who has compassion on them will lead them, and by springs of water he will guide them.

• Isaiah 65:13

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty; look, my servants will be glad, but you will be put to shame;

• Jeremiah 42:14

  saying, ‘No, but to the land of Egypt we will go, where we will not see war, and the sound of the horn we will not hear, and for bread we will not be hungry, and there we will stay’;