Strong H3720כָּפָן

famine

Transliteration
kâphân
Pronunciation
kaw-fawn'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H3719; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain): - famine.

Detailed definition

hunger, famine, painful hunger

In the Bible

Strong H3720 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • famine2

First verses

  1. Job 5:22
    At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
  2. Job 30:3
    For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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