רָעֵב adjective hungry; — absolute ׳ר [2Sam 17:29] +; feminine singular רְעֵבָה [Ps 107:9]; [Prov 27:7] masculine plural רְעֵבִים [1Sam 2:5] +; — hungry (sometimes + צָמֵא, עָיֵף), [2Sam 17:29]; [2Kgs 7:12]; [Isa 8:21]; [Prov 25:21]; [Ps 107:5] נֶפֶשׁ רְעֵבָה v[Ps 107:9]; [Prov 27:7] as substantive singular a hungry man [Isa 29:8]; [Isa 32:6]; [Isa 58:7]; [Isa 58:10]; [Ezek 18:7]; [Ezek 18:16]; [Job 5:5] (BevJPhil. xxvi. 304 proposes רָעָב, compare [Ezek 7:15]) [Ezek 22:7], plural [1Sam 2:5] (opposed to שְׂבֵעִים בַּלֶּחֶם), [Job 24:10] (|| עָרוֺם), [Ps 107:36]; [Ps 146:7] יְהִירָֿעֵב אֹנוֺ [Job 18:12] (figurative) his strength grows hungry, i.e. fails (ᵑ9 Ew Di and others); ᵑ6 De Bu Du (reading אָוֶן) al. his trouble grows hungry (i.e. ravenous for him), but ׳ר never elsewhere in this sense.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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