Strong's Lexicon
G3042 — λιμός
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3042 |
|---|---|
| Word: | λιμός |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | probably from G3007 (through the idea of destitution) |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 12 |
| Transliteration: | limos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | lee-mos' |
| Meaning: | 1. a scarcity of food |
| KJV Renderings: | dearth, famine, hunger |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λιμός, λιμοῦ, ὁ (and ἡ in Doric and later writings; so L T Tr WH in Luk 15:14; Act 11:28; so, too, in Isa 8:21; 1Ki 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 øÈòÈá; hunger: Luk 15:17; Rom 8:35; ἐν λιμῷ καί δίψει, 2Co 11:21; Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 13; equivalent to scarcity of harvest, famine: Luk 4:25; Luk 15:14; Act 7:11; Act 11:28 (cf. Buttmann, 81 (71)); Rev 6:8; Rev 18:8; λιμοί, famines in divers lands, Mar 13:8; λιμοί καί λοιμοί, Mat 24:7 (L T Tr text WH omit καί λοιμοί); Luk 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.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
λιμός (dearth)
Matthew 24:7
- KJV: For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places
- GK: εγερθήσεται γαρ έθνος επί έθνος και βασιλεία επί βασιλείαν και έσονται λιμοί και λοιμοί και σεισμοί κατά τόπους
Mark 13:8
- KJV: 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 the beginnings of sorrows
- GK: εγερθήσεται γαρ έθνος επί έθνος και βασιλεία επί βασιλείαν και έσονται σεισμοί κατά τόπους και έσονται λιμοί και ταραχαί αρχαί ωδίνων ταύτα
Luke 4:25
- KJV: 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
- GK: επ΄ αληθείας δε λέγω υμίν πολλαί χήραι ήσαν εν ταις ημέραις Ηλίου εν τω Ισραήλ ότε εκλείσθη ο ουρανός επί έτη τρία και μήνας εξ ως εγένετο λιμός μέγας επί πάσαν την γην
Luke 15:14
- KJV: And when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want
- GK: δαπανήσαντος δε αυτού πάντα εγένετο λιμός ισχυρός κατά την χώραν εκείνην και αυτός ήρξατο υστερείσθαι
Luke 15:17
- KJV: 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
- GK: εις εαυτόν δε ελθών είπεν πόσοι μίσθιοι του πατρός μου περισσεύουσιν άρτων εγώ δε λίμω απόλλυμαι
Luke 21:11
- KJV: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven
- GK: σεισμοί τε μεγάλοι κατά τόπους και λιμοί και λοιμοί έσονται φόβητρά τε και σημεία απ΄ ουρανού μεγάλα έσται
Acts 7:11
- KJV: Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance
- GK: ήλθε δε λιμός εφ΄ όλην την γην Αιγύπτου και Χαναάν και θλίψις μεγάλη και ουχ εύρισκον χορτάσματα οι πατέρες ημών
Acts 11:28
- KJV: 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 Cæsar
- GK: αναστάς δε εις εξ αυτών ονόματι Άγαβος εσήμανε διά του πνεύματος λιμόν μέγαν μέλλειν έσεσθαι εφ΄ όλην την οικουμένην όστις και εγένετο επί Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος
Romans 8:35
- KJV: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword
- GK: τις ημάς χωρίσει από της αγάπης του χριστού θλίψις η στενοχωρία η διωγμός η λιμός η γυμνότης η κίνδυνος η μάχαιρα