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Strong G3042λιμός

hunger

Transliteration
limos
Pronunciation
lee-mos'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine or Feminine)

Definition

Probably from G3007 (through the idea of destitution); a scarcity of food: - dearth famine hunger.

Detailed definition

λιμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(so in Att..; in Dor. ἡ, and so sometimes in LXX, see Th., Gr., 146; in NT: Luk.15:14, Act.11:28; cf. M, Pr., 60), [in LXX chiefly for רָעָב;]
hunger, famine: Luk.4:25 15:14, 17, Act.7:11" (LXX) Act.11:28, Rom.8:35, Rev.6:8 18:8; λ. καὶ δίψος, 2Co.11:27; pl., Mat.24:7, Mrk.13:8, Luk.21:11.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3042 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • famine7
  • hunger3
  • dearth2

First verses

  1. Matthew 24:7
    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
  2. Mark 13:8
    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
  3. Luke 4:25
    But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
  4. Luke 15:14
    And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
  5. Luke 15:17
    And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
  6. Luke 21:11
    And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
  7. Acts 7:11
    Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
  8. Acts 11:28
    And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.
  9. Romans 8:35
    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  10. 2 Corinthians 11:27
    In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  11. Revelation 6:8
    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
  12. Revelation 18:8
    Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
λῑμός, οῦ, ὁ
(Doric dialect ἡ, accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 164, used by the Megarian in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 743, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.17, 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 14.4)]; Λ. ἔχων γυναικὸς μορφήν Callisth. cited in [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 10.452b; also “hymnus ad Cererem” 311, Callias Epigrammaticus “anonymous fragment” 43, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.84.9, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.89 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus), NT.Luke.15.14, NT.Act.11.28))]:—hunger, famine, δίψα τε καὶ λ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.166; λιμῷ θανέειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.342; λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 243, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54; λ. αἰανής 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.49; λιμῷ συνεστεῶτας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.170; σκότῳ λ. ξύνοικος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1642; δείπνου προφήτην λιμόν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 217.23; ἅπανθ᾽ ὁ λ. γλυκέα πλὴν αὑτοῦ ποιεῖ [prev. author] 293; ὁ δὲ λ. ἐστιν ἀθανασίας φάρμακον [prev. author] 86.6: proverbial, ἀπολεῖτε λιμῷ Μηλίῳ)], referring to the siege of Melos, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 186: _metaphorically_, ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον.. λιμόν τ᾽ ἐν ἀνδρὸς πλουσίου φρονήματι, γνώμην δὲ μεγάλην ἐν πένητι σώματι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 371.)]
II a hungry wretch, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Κόλαξ” 78, 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 26.12, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1828.6.)]