'Famished' in the Bible
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau happened to come in from being outdoors, and he was feeling famished.
and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
And the king riseth by night, and saith unto his servants, 'Let me declare, I pray you, to you that which the Aramaeans have done to us; they have known that we are famished, and they are gone out from the camp to be hidden in the field, saying, When they come out from the city, then we catch them alive, and unto the city we enter.'
“His strength is famished,And calamity is ready at his side.
You gave no water to the thirstyand withheld food from the famished,
A sated man loathes honey,But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”
where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.