limos (hunger) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “famine”, “famines” and “hunger”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

a famine 4
famines 3
famine 3
with hunger 1
hunger 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Luke 4
Acts 2
Revelation 2
Matthew 1
Mark 1
Romans 1

7 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Mark 13:8For 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.
Luke 4:25But 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;
Luke 15:14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke 15:17And 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!
Luke 21:11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Acts 7:11Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

All 12 verses, by book

Matthew 1: 24:7
Mark 1: 13:8
Luke 4: 4:25 15:14 15:17 21:11
Acts 2: 7:11 11:28
Romans 1: 8:35
2 Corinthians 1: 11:27
Revelation 2: 6:8 18:8

Greek dictionary

λιμός limos · hunger

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)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “hunger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HUN'GER, noun

An uneasy sensation occasioned by the want of food; a craving of food by the stomach; craving appetite. hunger is not merely want of food, for persons when sick, may abstain long from eating without hunger or an appetite for food. hunger therefore is the pain or uneasiness of the stomach of a healthy person, when too long destitute of food.
Any strong or eager desire.

All definitions and other forms of “hunger”

HUN'GER, verb intransitive

To feel the pain or uneasiness which is occasioned by long abstinence from food; to crave food.

To desire with great eagerness; to long for.“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness” Matthew 5:6

HUN'GER, verb transitive

To famish. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.