Dearth - Biblical Meaning of dearth in Eastons Bible Dictionary (Bible History Online)

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a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Israel. 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 Israel (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45). Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. M.A., D.D., "Biblical Meaning for 'dearth' Eastons Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Eastons; 1897.

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