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Genesis 43:1

“And the famine was sore in the land.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

רָעָבrâʻâb · raw-awb'
H7458 · Hebrew
Definition
hunger (more or less extensive)
Derivation
from H7456 (רָעֵב);
KJV renderings
dearth, famine, [phrase] famished, hunger.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • הָ — particle (definite article)
  • רָעָ֖ב — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HC/Td/Ncmsa
Usage
Occurs 101 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:10Genesis 12:10Genesis 26:1Genesis 26:1Genesis 41:27

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.