Word

λιμός

limós · G3042 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

famine, hunger

A widespread lack of food over a considerable period of time and resulting in hunger for many people

Examples
Matthew 24:7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mark 13:8 “For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are only the beginning of birth pains.
Luke 4:25 “But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a severe famine came over all the land;
to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food

The state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare νηστεία ‘fasting,’)

Examples
Luke 15:17 “But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here from hunger!
Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
2 Corinthians 11:27 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 2 groups

μέγαςgreat, large 2
ἰσχυρόςstrong, mighty 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πληγήplague, wound, blow 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 4 groups

εἰμίto be 3
γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
ἔρχομαιto come 1
μέλλωto be about to 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γῆearth 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

רָעָב râʻâb · H7458 · hunger, famine: Hebrew רָעָב and Greek λιμός both denote scarcity of food/famine as their core meaning, representing direct translation equivalents across the two languages for this concept.

Semantic domains 3 entries

To be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food23.31: λιμός can describe a person's own severe hunger. Luke 15:17 has the prodigal son recalling, “How many of my father's hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here from hunger!” the λιμῷ naming this severe personal hunger that brought him to his senses.
Famine, hunger23.33: The word more often names a widespread famine affecting a whole region. Acts 11:28 recounts that the prophet Agabus “indicated by the Spirit that there would definitely be a severe famine all over the world,” the λιμὸν naming this coming worldwide famine he foretold.
Riot39.42: λιμός can also appear among a list of social calamities associated with civil upheaval and unrest. Matthew 24:7 has Jesus foretelling, “nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places,” the λιμοὶ naming this disorder listed alongside the convulsions of nations rising against one another.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λιμοῦ, ὁ (and ἡ in Doric and later writings; so L T Tr WH in Lk 15:14; Acts 11:28; so,…

λιμοῦ, ὁ (and ἡ in Doric and later writings; so L T Tr WH in Lk 15:14; Acts 11:28; so, too, in Isa 8:21; 1 Kgs 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: Lk 15:17; Rom 8:35; ἐν λιμῷ καί δίψει, 2 Cor 11:21; Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 13; equivalent to scarcity of harvest, famine: Lk 4:25; Lk 15:14; Acts 7:11; Acts 11:28 (cf. Buttmann, 81 (71)); Rev 6:8; Rev 18:8; λιμοί, famines in divers lands, Mk 13:8; λιμοί καί λοιμοί, Mt 24:7 (L T Tr text WH omit καί λοιμοί); Lk 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.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Eat, Drink12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0