Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3720 - כָּפָן kaphan

Original Word:	כָּפָן
Transliteration:	kaphan
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-fawn')
Definition:	hunger, famine
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

famine

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

see HEBREW kaphan

Englishman's Concordance

1) hunger, famine, painful hunger
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3719
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1020a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כָּפָןnoun [masculine]hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare Lag^{BN 144}), Job 5:22; Job 30:3.

כפס (perhaps √ of following; compare ᵑ7. כְּפַסEsther 1:6bind, fasten (so Levy, Jastrow)).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3720. כָּפָן (kaphan) — 2 Occurrences

Job 5:22
HEB: לְשֹׁ֣ד וּלְכָפָ֣ן תִּשְׂחָ֑ק וּֽמֵחַיַּ֥ת
NAS: at violence and famine, And you will not be afraid
KJV: At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:
INT: violence and famine will laugh of the beasts

Job 30:3
HEB: בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים
NAS: From want and famine they are gaunt
KJV: For want and famine [they were] solitary;
INT: want and famine are gaunt gnaw

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