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Famish
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

fam'-ish ra'ebh, razah): "To famish" as a transitive verb is the translation of ra'ebh, "to hunger" (Genesis 41:55): "All the land of Egypt was famished"; of ra'abh, "hunger" (Isaiah 5:13), "Their honorable men are famished," margin "Hebrew their glory are men of famine"; of razah, "to make lean," "famish" (Zephaniah 2:11), "For he will famish all the gods of the earth"; it is intransitive as the translation of ra'ebh (Proverbs 10:3), "Yahweh will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish."

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