King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3720
Transliteration: kaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: hunger, famine
Meaning: hunger, famine
Word Summary
kaphan: hunger, famine
Original Word: כָּפָןTransliteration: kaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: hunger, famine
Meaning: hunger, famine
Strong's Concordance
famine From kaphan; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) -- famine.
see HEBREW kaphan
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3720. kaphan
כָּפָן noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare LagBN 144), Job 5:22; 30:3.
כפס (perhaps √ of following; compare ᵑ7. כְּפַס Esther 1:6 bind, fasten (so Levy, Jastrow)).