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title: כָּפָן — hunger · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּפָן (3720), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: hunger. BDB 1906: hunger, famine. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּפָן

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«כָּפָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hunger** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3720 · **BDB:** כָּפָן

### Glosses

famine (1); hunger (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hunger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3720/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

hunger, famine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3720/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form cf. LagBN 144), Jb 5:22; 30:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּפָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3720/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 5:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.22/)

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לְשֹׁ֣ד וּלְכָפָ֣ן תִּשְׂחָ֑ק וּֽמֵחַיַּ֥ת הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ אַל־תִּירָֽא׃

*Word for word:* to destruction and to famine you.will.laugh and from the.animal\[s\] of the.earth do.not be.afraid

*JPS 1917:* At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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[Job 30:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/)

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בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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