רָעֵב
râʻêb · raw-abe'
hungry (more or less intensely)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7456 (רָעֵב);
hungry (more or less intensely)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hunger bitten, hungry.
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
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to the hungry5 · 23%
- the hungry2 · 9%
- from the hungry2 · 9%
- and they that were hungry1 · 5%
- is hungry1 · 5%
- that we be hungry1 · 5%
- shall be hungerbitten1 · 5%
- hungry1 · 5%
- and there he maketh the hungry1 · 5%
- be hungry1 · 5%
- but to the hungry1 · 5%
- and hungry1 · 5%
- and be hungry1 · 5%
- it shall even be as when an hungry1 · 5%
- of the hungry1 · 5%
- yea, he is hungry1 · 5%
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.