כָּפָן
kafan · famine, hunger
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3720 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kafan (כָּפָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “famine, hunger”.
That bends a person double with emptiness and pain.
How to say it
ka·fan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Lack of food that leaves people wasting away.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- famine ×1
- starvation ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.