'Severe' in the Bible
So the great abundance will become forgotten in the land because of that subsequent famine, for it will be very severe.
And [the people of] all countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the [known] earth.
Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live temporarily (sojourn) in the land [of Egypt], for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants [in our land], for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
Now [in the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished [in destitution and starvation] because of the famine.
And the Egyptians made the Israelites serve rigorously [forcing them into severe slavery].
now hear this: the hand of the Lord will fall on your livestock which are out in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks—a horrible plague shall come.
And Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were in a major conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called you [for help], you did not rescue me from their hand.
Now the war against the Philistines was severe (brutal, relentless) all the days of Saul; and whenever Saul saw any mighty or courageous man, he recruited him for his staff.
It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa developed a disease in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his illness he did not seek the Lord, but [relied only on] the physicians.
and you will suffer a severe illness, an intestinal disease, until your intestines come out because of the sickness, day after day.’”
Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his disease and he died in excruciating pain. And his people did not make a funeral fire to honor him, like the fire for his fathers.
“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].
There is severe discipline for him who turns from the way [of righteousness];And he who hates correction will die.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept and hoarded by their owner to his own misery.
This also is a grievous evil—exactly as he was born, so he shall die. So what advantage has he who labors for the wind?
In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.