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Famine

The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H7458, H3720, H7459, G3042
Hebrew
רָעָב · râʻâb
Greek
λιμός · limós

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

כָּפָן

H3720
Transliteration
kâphân
Pronunciation
kaw-fawn'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

famine.

Lexicon definition

hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Famine

The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Gerar (Gen. 26:1, 17). But the most remarkable of all was that which arose in Egypt in the days of Joseph, which lasted for seven years (Gen. 41-45). Famines were sent as an effect of God's anger against a guilty people (2 Kings 8:1, 2; Amos 8:11; Deut. 28:22-42; 2 Sam. 21:1; 2 Kings 6:25-28; 25:3; Jer. 14:15; 19:9; 42:17, etc.). A famine was predicted by Agabus (Acts 11:28). Josephus makes mention of the famine which occurred A.D. 45. Helena, queen of Adiabene, being at Jerusalem at that time, procured corn from Alexandria and figs from Cyprus for its poor inhabitants.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Famine

Indexed occurrences: 102

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Strong's Concordance

Famines

Indexed occurrences: 3

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All Scripture references112 references

Genesis 19

Genesis 12:10Genesis 26:1Genesis 41:27Genesis 41:30Genesis 41:31Genesis 41:36Genesis 41:50Genesis 41:54Genesis 41:56Genesis 41:57Genesis 42:5Genesis 42:19Genesis 42:33Genesis 43:1Genesis 45:6Genesis 45:11Genesis 47:4Genesis 47:13Genesis 47:20

Exodus 1

Exodus 16:3

Deuteronomy 2

Deuteronomy 28:48Deuteronomy 32:24

Ruth 1

Ruth 1:1

2 Samuel 2

2 Samuel 21:12 Samuel 24:13

1 Kings 3

1 Kings 8:371 Kings 171 Kings 18:2

2 Kings 6

2 Kings 4:382 Kings 6:252 Kings 7:42 Kings 8:12 Kings 18:272 Kings 25:3

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 21:12

2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 6:282 Chronicles 20:92 Chronicles 32:11

Nehemiah 2

Nehemiah 5:3Nehemiah 9:15

Job 3

Job 5:20Job 5:22Job 30:3

Psalms 3

Psalms 33:19Psalms 37:19Psalms 105:16

Proverbs 1

Proverbs 2:3

Isaiah 4

Isaiah 5:13Isaiah 14:30Isaiah 51:19Isaiah 55:1

Jeremiah 30

Jeremiah 5:12Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 14:12Jeremiah 14:13Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 14:16Jeremiah 14:18Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 18:21Jeremiah 21:7Jeremiah 21:9Jeremiah 24:10Jeremiah 27:8Jeremiah 27:13Jeremiah 29:17Jeremiah 29:18Jeremiah 32:24Jeremiah 32:36Jeremiah 34:17Jeremiah 38:2Jeremiah 38:9Jeremiah 42:16Jeremiah 42:17Jeremiah 42:22Jeremiah 44:12Jeremiah 44:13Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:27Jeremiah 52:6

Lamentations 3

Lamentations 2:19Lamentations 4:9Lamentations 5:10

Ezekiel 12

Ezekiel 5:12Ezekiel 5:16Ezekiel 5:17Ezekiel 6:11Ezekiel 6:12Ezekiel 7:15Ezekiel 12:16Ezekiel 14:13Ezekiel 14:21Ezekiel 34:29Ezekiel 36:29Ezekiel 36:30

Amos 2

Amos 4:6Amos 8:11

Matthew 2

Matthew 5:6Matthew 24:7

Mark 1

Mark 13:8

Luke 4

Luke 4:25Luke 6:21Luke 15:14Luke 21:11

Acts 3

Acts 7:11Acts 7:54Acts 11:28

Romans 1

Romans 8:35

1 Peter 1

1 Peter 2:2

Revelation 2

Revelation 6:8Revelation 18:8

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Ancient Context15 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back Again.

Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 8

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

What Things Befell Joseph In Prison.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 5

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Joseph When He Was Become Famous In Egypt, Had His Brethren In Subjection.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 6

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

The Removal Of Joseph's Father With All His Family, To Him, On Account Of The Famine.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 7

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How The Sea Was Divided Asunder For The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 16

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How The Hebrews Were Delivered From A Famine When The Gibeonites Had Caused Punishment To Be Inflicted For Those Of Them That Had Been Slain: As Also, What Great Actions Were Performed Against The Philistines By David, And The Men Of Valor About Him.

Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 12

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

That When David Had Numbered the People, They Were Punished; and How the Divine Compassion Restrained That Punishment.

Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 13

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Ahab When He Had Taken Jezebel To Wife Became More Wicked Than All The Kings That Had Been Before Him; Of The Actions Of The Prophet Elijah, And What Befell Naboth.

Antiquities Book 8, Chapter 13

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Jehoram Succeeds Jehoshaphat; How Joram, His Namesake, King Of Israel, Fought With The Syrians; And What Wonders Were Done By The Prophet Elisha.

Antiquities Book 9, Chapter 4

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

That The King Of Babylon Repented Of Making Jehoiachin King, And Took Him Away To Babylon And Delivered The Kingdom To Zedekiah. This King Would Not Believe What Was Predicted By Jeremiah And Ezekiel But Joined Himself To The Egyptians; Who When They Came Into Judea, Were Vanquished By The King Of Babylon; As Also What Befell Jeremiah.

Antiquities Book 10, Chapter 7

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How The King Of Babylon Took Jerusalem And Burnt The Temple And Removed The People Of Jerusalem And Zedekiah To Babylon. As Also, Who They Were That Had Succeeded In The High Priesthood Under The Kings.

Antiquities Book 10, Chapter 8

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Jonathan Took The Government After His Brother Judas; And How He, Together With His Brother Simon, Waged War Against Bacchides.

Antiquities Book 13, Chapter 1

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Herod Rebuilt The Temple And Raised It Higher And Made It More Magnificent Than It Was Before; As Also Concerning That Tower Which He Called Antonia.

Antiquities Book 15, Chapter 11

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Helena The Queen Of Adiabene And Her Son Izates, Embraced The Jewish Religion; And How Helena Supplied The Poor With Corn, When There Was A Great Famine At Jerusalem.

Antiquities Book 20, Chapter 2

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Concerning Florus The Procurator, Who Necessitated The Jews To Take Up Arms Against The Romans. The Conclusion.

Antiquities Book 20, Chapter 11

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Topic

FAMINE

Nave’s Topical Bible references for FAMINE.

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Dictionary

Dearth

A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).

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Dove's dung

(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the Jews (2 Kings 18:27; Isa. 36:12). This name, however, is applied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, and there is room for the opinion of those who think that some such substance is here referred to, as, e.g., the seeds of a kind of millet, or a very inferior kind of pulse, or the root of the ornithogalum, i.e., bird-milk, the star-of-Bethlehem.

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Famine

The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Gerar (Gen. 26:1, 17). But the most remarkable of all was that which arose in Egypt in the days of Joseph, which lasted for seven years (Gen. 41-45). Famines were sent as an effect of God's anger against a guilty people (2 Kings 8:1, 2; Amos 8:11; Deut. 28:22-42; 2 Sam. 21:1; 2 Kings 6:25-28; 25:3; Jer. 14:15; 19:9; 42:17, etc.). A famine was predicted by Agabus (Acts 11:28). Josephus makes mention of the famine which occurred A.D. 45. Helena, queen of Adiabene, being at Jerusalem at that time, procured corn from Alexandria and figs from Cyprus for its poor inhabitants.

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Tooth

One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" =famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" =children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2).

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