Kaphan כָּפָן
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| כָּפָן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | kaphan |
| Strong's number | H3720 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | famine |
| Occurrences | 2 in 2 verses |
Kaphan (Hebrew כָּפָן, Strong's H3720) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “famine”. It occurs 2 times in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
hunger, famine, painful hunger
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | famine (2) |
|---|---|
| BSB | famine (1), hunger (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Kaphan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 5:22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).