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כָּפָן

«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.

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

Glosses

famine (1); hunger (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

hunger tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

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)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «כָּפָן» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 5:22

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

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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