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Gematria of Famine

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “famine” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 106 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
106
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “famine”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

רָעָבrâʻâb×101 in the TanakhH7458

hunger (more or less extensive)

Standard 272 →Gadol 272Katan 11Siduri (ordinal) 38Atbash 310Perati 44,904Milui 1,052

First appearance ·Genesis 12:10בראשית יב:ירָעָב

See all 33 occurrences of the spelling רעב →

רְעָבוֹןrᵉʻâbôwn×3 in the TanakhH7459

famine

Standard 328 →Gadol 978Katan 22Siduri (ordinal) 58Atbash 399Perati 47,440Milui 1,171

First appearance ·Genesis 42:19בראשית מב:יטרַעֲבוֹן

See all 3 occurrences of the spelling רעבון →

כָּפָןkâphân×2 in the TanakhH3720

hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

Standard 150 →Gadol 800Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 42Atbash 45Perati 9,300Milui 287

First appearance ·Job 5:22איוב ה:כבוּלְכָפָן

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What is the gematria of famine?

The Tanakh renders “famine” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: רעב = 272, רעבון = 328 and כפן = 150.

How do you say famine in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “famine”; the most frequent are רעב (râʻâb), 101 times; רעבון (rᵉʻâbôwn), 3 times; כפן (kâphân), 2 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.