3042. limos
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limos: hunger, famine
Original Word: λιμός, οῦ, ὁ, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: limos
Phonetic Spelling: (lee-mos')
Short Definition: a famine, hunger
Definition: a famine, hunger.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
hunger, famine
NASB Translation
famine (7), famines (3), hunger (2).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3042: λιμός

λιμός, λιμοῦ, (and in Doric and later writings; so L T Tr WH in Luke 15:14; Acts 11:28; so, too, in Isaiah 8:21; 1 Kings 18:2; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 188; (Liddell and Scott, under the word at the beginning; WHs Appendix, p. 157a); Buttmann, 12 (11); Winers Grammar, 63 (62) (cf. 36), and 526 (490)); the Sept. very often for רָעָב; hunger: Luke 15:17; Romans 8:35; ἐν λιμῷ καί δίψει, 2 Corinthians 11:21; Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 13; equivalent to scarcity of harvest, famine: Luke 4:25; Luke 15:14; Acts 7:11; Acts 11:28 (cf. Buttmann, 81 (71)); Revelation 6:8; Revelation 18:8; λιμοί, famines in divers lands, Mark 13:8; λιμοί καί λοιμοί, Matthew 24:7 (L T Tr text WH omit καί λοιμοί); Luke 21:11; Theophilus ad Autol. 2, 9; the two are joined in the singular in Hesiod, Works, 226; Herodotus 7, 171; Philo, vit. Moys. i. § 19; Plutarch, de Isa. et Osir. 47.



Strong's
dearth, famine, hunger.

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

see GREEK leipo

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