HebrewH3720Noun (Masculine)
כָּפָן
ka.phan
“famine”
2Occurrences
H3720Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)
from H3719 (כָּפַן);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
hunger, famine, painful hunger
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
H:N-M
Full Description
H:N-M
Occurrences
כָּפָן appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Job
2
Key Passages
Job 30:3BSB
Gaunt from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,and the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 5:22BSB
You will laugh at destruction and famine,and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.