3720. kaphan
Strong's Concordance
kaphan: hunger, famine
Original Word: כָּפָן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fawn')
Short Definition: famine
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כָּפָן noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare LagBN 144), Job 5:22; Job 30:3.

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

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
famine

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

see HEBREW kaphan

Forms and Transliterations
וּבְכָפָ֗ן וּלְכָפָ֣ן ובכפן ולכפן ū·ḇə·ḵā·p̄ān ū·lə·ḵā·p̄ān ūḇəḵāp̄ān ulechaFan ūləḵāp̄ān uvechaFan
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Strong's Hebrew 3720
2 Occurrences


ū·lə·ḵā·p̄ān — 1 Occ.
ū·ḇə·ḵā·p̄ān — 1 Occ.

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

2 Occurrences

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