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Psalm 107

Psa. 107:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hungry
ra`eb (Hebrew #7457)
hungry (more or less intensely)
KJV usage: hunger bitten, hungry.
Pronounce: raw-abe'
Origin: from 7456
and thirsty
tsame' (Hebrew #6771)
thirsty (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (that) thirst(-eth, -y).
Pronounce: tsaw-may'
Origin: from 6770
, their soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
fainted
`ataph (Hebrew #5848)
to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
KJV usage: cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.
Pronounce: aw-taf'
Origin: a primitive root
in them.

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Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Judg. 15:18‑19• 18And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
 19But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. (Judg. 15:18‑19)
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1 Sam. 30:11‑12• 11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
 12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. (1 Sam. 30:11‑12)
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Isa. 44:12• 12The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. (Isa. 44:12)
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Jer. 14:18• 18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. (Jer. 14:18)
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Lam. 2:19• 19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. (Lam. 2:19)
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Mark 8:2‑3• 2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
 3And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. (Mark 8:2‑3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them: