Famine
כָּפָןStrong’s H3720kaphan (ka-phan)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaphan is the Hebrew word usually translated “famine” and “hunger”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.”
Meaning
- Hunger, famine, painful hunger
How it's translated
- and to famine 1
- and in hunger 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּפָן kaphan · famine
hunger, famine, painful hunger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “famine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAM'INE, noun
[Latin fames.]
- Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.“There was a famine in the land” Genesis 12:10
- Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.