1 Kings 17:4
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
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Ravens
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Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
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עֹרֵב
ʻôrêb · o-rabe'
4 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
a raven (from its dusky hue)
Strong's KJV usage: raven.
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Strong's first: 1 Kings 17:4Strong's last: Proverbs 30:17
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kórax · kor'-ax
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a crow (from its voracity)
Strong's KJV usage: :--raven.
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Strong's first: Luke 12:24Strong's last: Luke 12:24
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H6158
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
H6158
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
H6158
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
H6158
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
G2876
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
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raven
RAVEN, noun ra'ven. [Heb. from its color. But this may be Latin corvus, rapio.]
A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus.
RAVEN, verb transitive rav'n.
1. To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity.
Our natures do pursue, like rats that raven down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die.
Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey. Ezekiel 22:25.
2. To obtain by violence.
RAVEN, verb intransitive rav'n. To prey with rapacity.
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Genesis 49:1.
RAVEN, noun rav'n.
1. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. Nahum 2.
2. Rapine; rapacity.
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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