Proverbs 10:3
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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Famish
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Zephaniah 2:11
The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
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רָזָה
râzâh · raw-zaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to emaciate, i.e. make (become) thin (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: famish, wax lean.
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Strong's first: Zephaniah 2:11Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:11
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râʻêb · raw-abe'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to hunger
Strong's KJV usage: (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
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Strong's first: Proverbs 10:3Strong's last: Proverbs 10:3
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The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
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famish
FAM'ISH, verb transitive [Latin fames.]
1. To starve; to kill or destroy with hunger.
2. To exhaust the strength of, by hunger or thirst; to distress with hunger.
The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.
3. To kill by deprivation or denial of any thing necessary for life.
FAM'ISH, verb intransitive
1. To die of hunger. More generally,
2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish, for want of food or drink.
You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish
3. To be distressed with want; to come near to perish by destitution.
The Lord will not suffer the righteous to famish Proverbs 10:3.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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