1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
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Hungry
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Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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רָעֵב
râʻêb · raw-abe'
21 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
hungry (more or less intensely)
Strong's KJV usage: hunger bitten, hungry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 18:16
Open full H7457 profile →πεινάω
peináō · pi-nah'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
Strong's KJV usage: :--be an hungered.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 11:12Strong's last: Philippians 4:12
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râʻêb · raw-abe'
4 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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 50:12Strong's last: Isaiah 65:13
Open full H7456 profile →πρόσπεινος
próspeinos · pros'-pi-nos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
hungering further, i.e. intensely hungry
Strong's KJV usage: :--very hungry.
Strong's first: Acts 10:10Strong's last: Acts 10:10
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Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
H7457
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
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The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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hungry
HUN'GRY, adjective Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry
1. Having an eager desire.
2. Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.
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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