Word Forms
These forms come from “famine” and change to fit the sentence.
- faminebase form
- faminesplural
famine
WEB 100 appearances
KJV 99 appearances
A famine is a time when there is very little food in a land. During a famine, many people do not have enough to eat.
Biblical Usage
In the Bible, a famine often happened when no rain fell and crops could not grow. People had to travel to other places to buy grain so they would not starve. Sometimes God sent a famine to teach people or to move them to a new place.
WEB Representative Scriptures
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.Genesis 12:10 (WEB)
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.Acts 7:11 (WEB)
The famine was severe in the land.Genesis 43:1 (WEB)
KJV Representative Scriptures
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.Genesis 41:31 (KJV)
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.Psalms 37:19 (KJV)
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.Luke 15:14 (KJV)