Limitless Word
רָעֵבrâʻêb/raw-abe'/
HebrewH745722 occurrences (KJV)

hungry (more or less intensely)

KJV renders it: hunger bitten, hungry.

Where it appears

  • 1 Sam 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
  • 2 Sam 17:29honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
  • 2 Kgs 7:12The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”
  • Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
  • Job 18:12His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
  • Job 22:7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
  • Job 24:10So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
  • Ps 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
  • Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
  • Ps 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
  • Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
  • Prov 25:21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
  • Prov 27:7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
  • Isa 8:21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
  • Isa 9:20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
  • Isa 29:8It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
  • Isa 32:6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  • Isa 44:12The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
  • Isa 58:7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
  • Isa 58:10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
  • Ezek 18:7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Ezek 18:16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.