Lexical Definition

‎כָּפָן‎ kâphân (kaw-fawn') famine ^H:N-M
from ‎כָּפַן‎

famine.

• hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

1) hunger, famine, painful hunger

See Greek: λιμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כָּפָן‎ noun [masculine] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form compare Lag^{BN 144}), Job 5:22; Job 30:3.

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