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כָּפָן

kâphân · H3720 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hunger, famine, starvation

    Condition of not having food to eat

    Examples

    Job 5:22 “You will laugh at violence and hunger, And you will not be afraid of wild animals.

    Job 30:3 “From poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

How it’s used In 1 role

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the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
רָעָב râʻâb · H7458 · hunger, famine
Both words refer to famine or hunger.
רְעָבוֹן rᵉʻâbôwn · H7459 · famine, starvation
Both words denote famine or starvation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Hunger002004001001002
This word denotes famine, a general scarcity of food causing widespread hunger, so it belongs among words for hunger and want.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּפַן kâphan · H3719 · to bend · 1×כָּפָןkâphân · H3720
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3720. kaphan כָּפָן noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare LagBN…
H3720. kaphan
כָּפָן noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare LagBN 144), Job 5:22; Job 30:3.
כפס (perhaps √ of following; compare ᵑ7. כְּפַס Est 1:6 bind, fasten (so Levy, Jastrow)).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Hunger2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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