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title: רָעֵב — hungry · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָעֵב (7457), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 20 times: hungry. BDB 1906: adj. hungry. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָעֵב

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«רָעֵב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hungry** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 20 times · **Key:** 7457 · **BDB:** רָעֵב²

### Glosses

hungry (9); \[person\] (3); \[is\].hungry (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hungry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. hungry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. hungry;—abs. ר׳ 2 S 17:29 +; fs. רְעֵבָה ψ 107:9 Pr 27:7; mpl. רְעֵבִים 1 S 2:5 +;—hungry (sometimes + עָמֵא, עָיֵף), 2 S 17:29 2 K 7:12 Is 8:21 Pr 25:21 ψ 107:5; נֶפֶשׁ רְעֵבָה v 9 Pr 27:7; as subst. sg. a hungry man Is 29:8; 32:6; 58:7, 10 Ez 18:7, 16 Jb 5:5 (BevJPhil. xxvi. 304 proposes רָעָב, cf. Ez 7:15) 22:7, pl. 1 S 2:5 (opp. שְׂבֵעִים בַּלֶּהֶם), Jb 24:10 (‖ עָרוֹם), ψ 107:36; 146:7; יְהִי־רָעֵב אֹנוֹ Jb 18:12 (fig.) his strength grows hungry, i.e. fails (𝔙 Ew Di al.); 𝔖 De Bu Du (reading אָוֶן) al. his trouble grows hungry (i.e. ravenous for him), but ר׳ never elsewhere in this sense.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָעֵב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7457/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 24:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/)

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עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

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[Psalms 107:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/)

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רְעֵבִ֥ים גַּם־צְמֵאִ֑ים נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בָּהֶ֥ם תִּתְעַטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* hungry also thirsty life their in them it.was.fainting.away

*JPS 1917:* Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

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