ka.phan denotes famine as a condition of deprivation or a threat set beside violence.

The two attested uses present famine both as deprivation amid poverty and desolation and as a threat named alongside violence.

1. Famine as deprivation or threat · dominant

   Both occurrences use the masculine singular absolute noun in clauses concerning hardship: in Job 30:3 the APB renders people as solitary "in poverty and in famine" while they gnaw dryness amid devastation, and in Job 5:22 it renders famine alongside violence as something the addressee will laugh at. The evidence shows one use of famine in differing hardship contexts rather than distinct lexical senses.

   Job 30:3Job 5:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "famine" in both verses, once within poverty and desolation and once alongside violence. These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than isolate every contribution of the noun.