'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.
But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
for this reason in one day shall her plagues come, death and grief and famine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.