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H7458רָעָבra.av
faminePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
וְהָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [supplied: pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [supplied: pieces] of silver.
רָעָ֤ב ra.'Av “a famine”
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
וְהָרָעָ֤ב (רָעָ֤ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
לָֽרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”
On the ninth day of the [supplied: fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
הָרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
רָעָ֗ב ra.'Av “famine”
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
רָעָ֞ב ra.'Av “famine”
If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.
וְרָעָב֒ (רָעָב֒) ra.'Av “famine”
Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
בְּרָעָ֥ב (רָעָ֥ב) ra.'Av “hunger”
Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
לִרְעָבָ֔ם (רְעָבָ֔) r.'a.Va “hunger”
In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword.
בְּ֭רָעָב (רָעָב) ra.'o “famine”
To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
רָ֭עָב ra.'o “a famine”
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
רָעָ֔ב ra.'Av “hunger”
The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.
בָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
וְהָרָעָ֥ב (רָעָ֥ב) ra.'Av “famine”
They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
וְרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (רָעָֽב) ra.'Av “famine”
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
וּבָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
וְרָעָ֖ב (רָעָ֖ב) ra.'Av “famine”
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
וְרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”וּבָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”
The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.
הָרָעָ֣ב (רָעָ֣ב) ra.'Av “famine”
If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
רָעָ֑ב ra.'Av “famine”
It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
לָֽרָעָב֙ (רָעָב֙) ra.'Av “famine”לָֽרָעָ֔ב (רָעָ֔ב) ra.'Av “famine”