Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
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Famine
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Revelation 18:8
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
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32 occurrences in 29 verses.
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רָעָב
râʻâb · raw-awb'
87 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
hunger (more or less extensive)
Strong's KJV usage: dearth, famine, famished, hunger.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 12:10Strong's last: Amos 8:11
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limós · lee-mos'
4 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a scarcity of food
Strong's KJV usage: :--dearth, famine, hunger.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 4:25Strong's last: Revelation 18:8
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rᵉʻâbôwn · reh-aw-bone'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
famine
Strong's KJV usage: famine.
Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Psalms 37:19
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kâphân · kaw-fawn'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)
Strong's KJV usage: famine.
Strong's first: Job 5:22Strong's last: Job 30:3
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H7458
A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
H7458
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
H7458
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
H7458
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
H7458
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
H7458
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
H7458
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
H7458
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
H7458
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
H7458
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
H7458
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
H7458
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
H7458
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
English meaning and historical usage.
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famine
FAM'INE, noun [Latin fames.]
1. Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.
There was a famine in the land. Genesis 26:1.
2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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