'Famine' in the Bible
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; 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.
Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.
Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. The horseman on it was named Death, and Hades was following after him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.