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כָּפָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3720

hunger — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

hunger tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּפָן: hunger, famine tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form cf. LagBN 144), Jb 5:22; 30:3.

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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: famine (1); hunger (1).

In the verses

Job 5:22 · tree →

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.

Job 30:3 · tree →

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.

On Mova

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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