Bible Dictionaries
Dearth
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17 ). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Genesis 12:10 ), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4,13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1 ), and of the kings (2 Samuel 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1 ). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28 ) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44,45).
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These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.
Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Dearth'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/d/dearth.html. 1897.