# H3720 כָּפָן

כָּפָן (kâphân), Strong’s H3720: hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) KJV: famine.. Occurs 2 times.

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*kâphân* — hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)

KJV: famine.

Derived from [כָּפַן kâphan](https://besorah.bible/word/H3719) (to bend)

Occurs 2 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כָּפָן n.[m.] hunger, famine

## Where it occurs
- [Job 5:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/5?v=22) — You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
- [Job 30:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/30?v=3) — They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.