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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Famine

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

96exact KJV occurrences 92Old Testament 4New Testament 17books containing the word 4mapped Strong's IDs 96occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where famine appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 2418 verses Ruth 11 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 22 verses 2 Kings 44 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses 2 Chronicles 22 verses Job 33 verses Psalms 33 verses Isaiah 22 verses Jeremiah 3229 verses Lamentations 11 verses Ezekiel 1311 verses Amos 21 verses Luke 22 verses Romans 11 verses Revelation 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH3720
כָּפָן

kâphân · kaw-fawn'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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32 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
Jeremiah 42:22
H7458

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Jeremiah 44:12
H7458

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jeremiah 44:12
H7458

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jeremiah 44:13
H7458

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

Jeremiah 44:18
H7458

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

Jeremiah 44:27
H7458

Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

Jeremiah 52:6
H7458

And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.