What Does “Famine” Mean in the Bible?
A lack of food in a land: hunger for everyone.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 26:1; Genesis 41:57
What the Bible says
Genesis 26:1
And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.
Genesis 41:57
And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “carestía”