'Famine' in the Bible

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and I perish here by famine.