ra.ev denotes experiencing hunger, and in Hiphil forms causing or allowing hunger.

The dominant use describes persons or groups experiencing hunger, whether as present deprivation, a future condition, or a condition denied; the Hiphil occurrences place hunger under another agent's action or restraint.

1. Experiencing hunger or lack of food · dominant

   Qal forms portray hunger as a condition of people or individuals: in Genesis 41:55 the APB renders all Egypt as “hungry” while the people cry to Pharaoh for food; in Isaiah 65:13 it contrasts servants who eat with others who “shall be hungry.” Isaiah 8:21 links the condition with anger, and Proverbs 6:30 places it in the clause about a thief satisfying his appetite.

   Genesis 41:55Isaiah 65:13Isaiah 8:21Proverbs 6:30Proverbs 19:15Psalm 50:12
2. Causing or permitting hunger · rare

   The Hiphil forms place hunger in a clause governed by another agent. In Deuteronomy 8:3 the APB renders the sequence, “He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna”; in Proverbs 10:3 the LORD is said not to let the righteous person “go hungry.”

   Deuteronomy 8:3Proverbs 10:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the condition with “hungry,” “hunger,” or “go hungry,” and it renders the Deuteronomy 8:3 Hiphil clause “let you hunger.” These renderings confirm the verse contexts rather than assign a fixed English equivalent to every form.