Topic
Hunger
34 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 5:6ISBE · Nave SPIRITUAL
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
- Matthew 21:18ISBE · Nave Of Jesus
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
- Revelation 7:16ISBE · Nave No hunger in heaven
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
- Exodus 16:3ISBE
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole…
- Deuteronomy 8:3ISBE
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the…
- Proverbs 2:3–5Nave SPIRITUAL
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
- Proverbs 16:26Nave A stimulus to work
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- Proverbs 19:15ISBE
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Isaiah 8:21ISBE
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
- Isaiah 29:8ISBE
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the…
- Isaiah 49:10ISBE
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
- Isaiah 55:1Nave SPIRITUAL
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Show 22 more
- Isaiah 55:2 Nave SPIRITUAL
- Jeremiah 38:9 ISBE
- Ezekiel 34:29 ISBE
- Amos 8:11–13 Nave SPIRITUAL
- Matthew 4:2 ISBE
- Matthew 4:2–4 Nave Of Jesus
- Matthew 12:1 ISBE
- Matthew 12:3 ISBE
- Matthew 25:35 ISBE
- Matthew 25:37 ISBE
- Matthew 25:42 ISBE
- Matthew 25:44 ISBE
- Mark 2:25 ISBE
- Mark 11:12 Nave Of Jesus
- Luke 4:2 ISBE
- Luke 4:2–4 Nave Of Jesus
- Luke 6:3 ISBE
- Luke 6:21 Nave SPIRITUAL
- John 4:8 Nave Of Jesus
- John 6:35 ISBE
- 1 Peter 2:2 Nave SPIRITUAL
- Revelation 7:17 Nave No hunger in heaven
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 24 references
hun'-ger (ra`abh; limos (subs.), peinao (vb.):
(1) The desire for food, a physiological sensation associated with emptiness of the stomach, and dependent on some state of the mucous membrane;
(2) starvation as the effect of want of food, as Ex 16:3; Isa 49:10;
(3) to feel the craving for food as De 8:3; when used to indicate the condition due to general scarcity of food as Jer 38:9; Eze 34:29 it is replaced in the Revised Version (British and American) by "famine." The word is used to express the poverty which follows idleness and sloth (Pr 19:15). The absence of this condition is given as one of the characteristics of the future state of happiness (Isa 49:10; Eze 34:29; Re 7:16). Metaphorically the passionate striving for moral and spiritual rectitude is called hungering and thirsting after righteousness (Mt 5:6); and the satisfaction of the soul which receives Christ is described as a state in which "he shall not hunger" (Joh 6:35).
On two occasions it is said of our Lord that He hungered (Mt 21:18; Lu 4:2); 9 times the old English expression "an hungred" is used, the "an" being a prefix which indicates that the condition is being continued (Mt 12:1,3; 25:35,37,42,44; Mr 2:25; Lu 6:3 the King James Version). In Mt 4:2 the King James Version, "an hungred" has been changed to "hungered" in the Revised Version (British and American). "Hard bestead and hungry" in Isa 8:21 means bested (that is, placed) in a condition of hardship, "sore distressed," the American Standard Revised Version. The word occurs in Spenser, "Thus ill bestedd and fearful more of shame" (I, i, 24). The reference of the aggravation of the sensation of hunger when one who is starving awakes from a dream of food (Isa 29:8) is graphically illustrated by the experience of the antarctic voyager (Shackleton, Heart of the Antarctic, II, 9).
Alexander Macalister
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 15 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.