| NASB © | Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Definition | Origin | | Now the famine | וְהָרָעָ֖ב | ve·ha·ra·'av | 7458 | famine, hunger | from raeb |
| was severe | כָּבֵ֥ד | ka·ved | 3515 | heavy | from kabad |
| in the land. | בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ | ba·'a·retz. | 776 | earth, land | a prim. root |
| KJV Lexicon And the famine ra`ab (raw-awb') hunger (more or less extensive) -- dearth, famine, + famished, hunger. was sore kabed (kaw-bade') heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid) -- (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick. in the land 'erets (eh'-rets) the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world. |