λιμός limos

Greek word for “hunger” · Strong’s G3042 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

λιμός, -οῦ, ὁ; (so in Att..;

How it is translated

Glosses given for limos in context, with how often each is used:

• famine 7
• famines 3
• hunger 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 15 (2), Matthew 24 (1), Mark 13 (1), Luke 4 (1), Luke 21 (1), Acts 7 (1), Acts 11 (1), Romans 8 (1), 2 Corinthians 11 (1), Revelation 6 (1)

Forms

• λιμὸς 4
• λιμῷ 3
• λιμοὶ 2
• λιμοί 1
• λιμὸν 1
• λιμός 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with limos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• σεισμός seismos “earthquake” 3
• γυμνότης gumnotēs “nakedness” 2
• μέγας megas “great” 4
• τόπος topos “place” 3
• κατά kata “according to” 4
• ἰσχυρός ischuros “strong” 2
• θλῖψις thlipsis “pressure” 2
• ὅλος holos “all” 2
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 2
• ἐγείρω egeirō “to arise” 2
• ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 2
• βασιλεία basileia “kingdom” 2

Key verses

The verses using limos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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.
• 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:…
• 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…
• Luke 15:14 — And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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?
• 2 Corinthians 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 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…
• 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.