17 occurrences

'Hunger' in the Bible

The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Hezekiah says, "The Lord our God will rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria." But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!

You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

A laborer's appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work.

They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord's fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.

You will have plenty to eat, and your hunger will be fully satisfied; you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has acted wondrously in your behalf. My people will never again be put to shame.

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

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Definition
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רעב 
Ra`eb 
Usage: 13

רעב 
Ra`eb 
Usage: 19

רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

λιμός 
Limos 
Usage: 6

πεινάω 
Peinao 
hunger , be an hungred , be hungry , hungry
Usage: 12

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