Midvash

כָּפָןkâphân

hunger, famine (Job 5:22; Job 30:3)

Pronunciation: kaw-fawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3720

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Job 5:22 You will laugh at destruction and famine; wild animals will not terrify you.
  • Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).