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H7458רָעָבra.av
faminePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.
וְהָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.
רָעָ֤ב ra.'Av “a famine”
If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life wil
וְהָרָעָ֤ב (רָעָ֤ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and t
לָֽרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
הָרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destr
רָעָ֗ב ra.'Av “famine”
If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:
רָעָ֞ב ra.'Av “famine”
If evil comes on us, the sword, or punishment, or disease, or need of food, we will come to this house and to you, (for your name is in this house,) crying to you in our trouble, and you will give us salvation in answer to our cry.
וְרָעָב֒ (רָעָב֒) ra.'Av “famine”
Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?
בְּרָעָ֥ב (רָעָ֥ב) ra.'Av “hunger”
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.
לִרְעָבָ֔ם (רְעָבָ֔) r.'a.Va “hunger”
When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
בְּ֭רָעָב (רָעָב) ra.'o “famine”
To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
רָ֭עָב ra.'o “a famine”
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
רָעָ֔ב ra.'Av “hunger”
And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
בָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”
These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
וְהָרָעָ֥ב (רָעָ֥ב) ra.'Av “famine”
They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
וְרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
וּבָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
וְרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
וְרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”וּבָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”
And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their d
הָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
רָעָ֑ב ra.'Av “famine”
And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as ar
לָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”לָֽרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”