Lexicon kaphan: hunger, famine Original Word: כָּפָןPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: kaphan Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fawn') Short Definition: famine NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kaphanDefinitionhunger, famine NASB Translationfamine (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כָּפָן noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare Lag BN 144), Job 5:22; Job 30:3. כפס (perhaps √ of following; compare ᵑ7. כְּפַס Esther 1:6 bind, fasten (so Levy, Jastrow)).
Strong's famine From kaphan; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) -- famine. see HEBREW kaphan |
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