רָעֵב
râʻêb · raw-abe'
to hunger
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to hunger
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to see and know › the house, what is within
The head, the highest that works to see and know of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָעֵב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- was famished1 · 8%
- thee, and suffered thee to hunger1 · 8%
- and suffer hunger1 · 8%
- if i were hungry1 · 8%
- when he is hungry1 · 8%
- will not suffer1 · 8%
- to famish1 · 8%
- shall suffer hunger1 · 8%
- and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry1 · 8%
- they shall not hunger1 · 8%
- but ye shall be hungry1 · 8%
- nor have hunger1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.