Meaning of DEARTH
| Pronunciation: | | durth
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- [n] an insufficient quantity or number
- [n] a severe shortage (especially a shortage of food)
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| | Synonyms: | | famine, paucity, shortage |
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| | See Also: | | deficiency, lack, scarceness, scarcity, want | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See {Dear}.]
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack
of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts
vii. 11.
He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak.
Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.
--Dryden.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | 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" (Gen. 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 Sam. 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 and 45). |
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