Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3720: כָּפָן

kâphân · pronounced kaw-fawn' · “famine”

Definition

hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

KJV translates it as: famine.

Word origin: from H3719 (כָּפַן);

Extended definition

hunger, famine, painful hunger

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3720 is translated

  • famine ×1
  • hunger ×1

Bible verses with H3720 (kâphân)

Kâphân appears in 2 verses.

  • Job 5:22

    At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

  • Job 30:3

    For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.