KJV Dictionary - famine
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FAMINE
FAM'INE, n. L. 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. Gen. 26.
2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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