HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6869
בַּצָּרָה
bats.tsa.rah — dearth
death, destitution
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Dearth
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1226
בַּצֹּרֶת
bats.tso.ret — drought
dearth, drought, destitution
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G21113
σπάνις
spanis — craving
scarcity, rareness, dearth, lack of a thing, (Euripides):—; οὐ σπάνις [ ἐστι] = οὐ σπάνιον, there is no lack , no difficulty , (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6626
ἀφορία
aphoria — non-productivity
1. a not bearing : 2. non-production, dearth , καρπῶν (Xenophon Historicus) 3. barrenness, sterility of land: metaphorically, ἀφ. φρενῶν (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
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A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a “famine in the land” (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.