רָעֵב râʻêb — to hunger
Translated in the KJV as famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger.
a primitive root; to hunger.
râʻêb in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›