International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Famish

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Famish


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fam´ish רעב, rā‛ēbh, רזה, rāzāh): “To famish” as a transitive verb is the translation of rā‛ēbh, “to hunger” (): “All the land of Egypt was famished”; of rā‛ābh, “hunger” (), “Their honorable men are famished,” margin “Hebrew their glory are men of famine”; of rāzāh, “to make lean,” “famish” (), “For he will famish all the gods of the earth”; it is intransitive as the translation of rā‛ēbh (), “Yahweh will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.