πρόσπεινος
próspeinos · G4361 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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hungry
Pertaining to a state of hunger
ExamplesActs 10:10 But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- νῆστις nēstis · G3523 · to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food
- νῆστις denotes the state of not having eaten (whether voluntary fasting or involuntary hunger), closely related to πρόσπεινος but focusing on the abstinence from food rather than the intensified hunger itself; both describe food deprivation states
Contrasting words 2 words
- χορτάζω chortázō · G5526 · to cause to eat one’s fill, to satisfy with food, to eat one’s fill
- χορτάζω means to be satisfied/filled with food, the opposite state of πρόσπεινος (intensely hungry); one who is χορτασθείς (satisfied) is the opposite of πρόσπεινος
- ἐμπίπλημι empíplēmi · G1705 · to be satisfied, to have one’s fill, to enjoy
- ἐμπίπλημι means to fill or satisfy (especially with food), denoting the satiated state that is opposite to being intensely hungry (πρόσπεινος)
In the other Testament 1 word
- רָעֵב râʻêb · H7457 · hungry
- Standard Hebrew equivalent for the state of being hungry; רָעֵב is the common Hebrew adjective for 'hungry' that would naturally translate πρόσπεινος in its NT context (Acts 10:10)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hungry23.30
- The adjective describes the state of being intensely hungry. Luke's account of Peter's vision at Joppa uses this term: “But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance” (Acts 10:10).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσπεινον (πεινᾷ hunger (cf. πεινάω)), very (literally, besides, in accession (cf. πρός,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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