Strong's Lexicon
G3983 — πεινάω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3983 |
|---|---|
| Word: | πεινάω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from a primary peno "to toil for daily subsistence" through the idea of pinching toil, "pine" |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 23 |
| Transliteration: | peinao |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | pei-nah'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to famish 2. (figuratively) to crave {absolutely or comparatively} |
| KJV Renderings: | be an hungered |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πεινάω, πείνω, infinitive πεινᾶν (Php 4:12); future πεινάσω (Luk 6:25; Rev 7:16); 1 aorist ἐπείνασα — for the earlier forms πεινην, πεινήσω, ἐπείνησα; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., pp. 61 and 204; Winers Grammar, § 13, 3 b.; (Buttmann, 37 (32); 44 (38)); see also διψάω; (from πεινᾷ hunger; (see πένης)); from Homer down; the Sept. for øÈòÅá; to hunger, be hungry;
a. properly: Mat 4:2; Mat 12:1; Mat 12:3; Mat 21:18; Mat 25:35; Mat 25:37; Mat 25:42; Mat 25:44; Mar 2:25; Mar 11:12; Luk 4:2; Luk 6:3; Luk 6:25; equivalent to to suffer want, Rom 12:20; 1Co 11:21; 1Co 11:34; to be needy, Luk 1:53; Luk 6:21; Php 4:12; in this same sense it is joined with δίψαν, 1Co 4:11; in figurative discourse, οὐ πεινᾶν καί οὐ δίψαν is used to describe the condition of one who is in need of nothing requisite for his real (spiritual) life and salvation, Joh 6:35; Rev 7:16.
b. metaphorically, to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire: with the accusative of the thing, τήν δικαιοσύνην, Mat 5:6 (in the better Greek authors with a genitive as χρημάτων, Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 39; συμμαχων, 7, 5, 50; ἐπαινου, oec. 13, 9; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 10, b. at the end; (Buttmann, § 131, 4); Kuinoel on Mat 5:6, and see διψάω, 2).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
πεινάω (be an hungered)
Matthew 4:2
- KJV: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterward an hungred
- GK: και νηστεύσας ημέρας τεσσαράκοντα και νύκτας τεσσαράκοντα ύστερον επείνασε
Matthew 5:6
- KJV: Blessed they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled
- GK: μακάριοι οι πεινώντες και διψώντες την δικαιοσύνην ότι αυτοί χορτασθήσονται
Matthew 12:1
- KJV: At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn and his disciples were an hungred and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat
- GK: εν εκείνω τω καιρώ επορεύθη ο Ιησούς τοις σάββασι διά των σπορίμων οι δε μαθηταί αυτού επείνασαν και ήρξαντο τίλλειν στάχυας και εσθίειν
Matthew 12:3
- KJV: But he said unto them Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungred and they that were with him
- GK: ο δε είπεν αυτοίς ουκ ανέγνωτε τι εποίησε Δαβίδ ότε επείνασεν αυτός και οι μετ΄ αυτού
Matthew 21:18
- KJV: Now in the morning as he returned into the city he hungered
- GK: πρωϊας δε επανάγων εις την πόλιν επείνασε
Matthew 25:35
- KJV: For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in
- GK: επείνασα γαρ και εδώκατέ μοι φαγείν εδίψησα και εποτίσατέ με ξένος ήμην και συνηγάγετέ με
Matthew 25:37
- KJV: Then shall the righteous answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred and fed or thirsty and gave thee drink
- GK: τότε αποκριθήσονται αυτώ οι δίκαιοι λέγοντες κύριε πότε σε είδομεν πεινώντα και εθρέψαμεν η διψώντα και εποτίσαμεν
Matthew 25:42
- KJV: For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink
- GK: επείνασα γαρ και ουκ εδώκατέ μοι φαγείν εδίψησα και ουκ εποτίσατέ με
Matthew 25:44
- KJV: Then shall they also answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred or athirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto thee
- GK: τότε αποκριθήσονται αυτώ και αυτοί λέγοντες κύριε πότε σε είδομεν πεινώντα η διψώντα η ξένον η γυμνόν η ασθενή η εν φυλακή και ου διηκονήσαμέν σοι
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