Word Study · Strong's H3720 · Hebrew
כָּפָן
kaphan
kaw-fawn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: kâphân
“hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)
Rendered in the KJV as
famine.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- וּבְכָפָ֗ן1
- וּלְכָפָ֣ן1
How it is rendered · 2
- and in hunger1
- and to famine1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2
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- HC/R/Ncmsa · 2
All 2, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Job2 occurrences
- Job 5:22וּלְכָפָ֣ןulekhafanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singularYou will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.here: and to famine
- Job 30:3וּבְכָפָ֗ןuvekhafanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singularGaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.here: and in hunger