the famine prevailed # 12_2KI_25_03 # And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 
the famine prevailed # 01_GEN_47_20 # And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.