Dearth
Dearth
See Famine.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Dearth
(usually , hunger; , famine; as both are elsewhere rendered; but in Jer 14:1, , batstso’reth, restraint, sc. of rain, drought, as in Jer 17:8), a scarcity of provisions. Although Palestine is a very fruitful land, yet a famine naturally followed a lack of crops, especially when the rain failed (1 Kings 17; Josephus, Ant. 15:9, 1), or the country was visited, among the not infrequent land-plagues (2Sa 24:13; Psa 33:19; Eze 36:29; Jer 14:13; Jer 14:15), with swarms of locusts (q.v.); and we read of dearths in the historical narratives not only in the patriarchal period (Gen 12:10; Gen 47:4; Gen 47:13), and the era of the judges (Rth 1:1), when the soil was not regularly farmed, but also in the time of the kings (2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:2; 2Ki 4:38; Jer 14:1), and, indeed, the destitution sometimes continued more than one year together (2Sa 21:1). In such cases the inhabitants availed themselves of supplies from the neighboring Egypt (Gen 12:10; Gen 42:1 sq.; Gen 43:1 sq.; Josephus, Ant. 15:9, 2; 20:2, 6; 5, 2), although this region likewise suffered in like manner whenever the Nile failed to reach its usual overflow (Genesis 41, 43). Under the Roman rule an extensive famine prevailed (Act 11:12) in the time of the emperor Claudius (q.v.), which occurred during several years in different provinces of the empire, and reached Palestine at the end of the fourth year of his reign (Joseph. Ant. 20:2, 6; comp. 3, 15, 3). SEE AGABUS. Josephus mentions an earlier famine (Ant. 15:9, 1), that took place in the thirteenth year of Herod the Great, which resulted from drought, and was followed by pestilence. SEE FAMINE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Dearth
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).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Dearth
durth. See FAMINE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Dearth
Dearth. See Famine.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Dearth
* For DEARTH see FAMINE