Kâphân — H3720

Definition

masculine noun

hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

1. hunger, famine, painful hunger

Usually translated as

famine

Origin

from H3719

• Derived from Kâphan (H3719)

Greek equivalents

• limós (G3042)

Occurrences

Kâphân occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (2)

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