Strong's Concordance limos: hunger, famine Original Word: λιμός, οῦ, ὁ, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: limos Phonetic Spelling: (lee-mos') Short Definition: a famine, hunger Definition: a famine, hunger. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3042: λιμόςλιμός, λιμοῦ, ὁ (and ἡ in Doric and later writings; so L T Tr WH in Luke 15:14; Acts 11:28; so, too, in Isaiah 8:21; 1 Kings 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: Luke 15:17; Romans 8:35; ἐν λιμῷ καί δίψει, 2 Corinthians 11:21; Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 13; equivalent to scarcity of harvest, famine: Luke 4:25; Luke 15:14; Acts 7:11; Acts 11:28 (cf. Buttmann, 81 (71)); Revelation 6:8; Revelation 18:8; λιμοί, famines in divers lands, Mark 13:8; λιμοί καί λοιμοί, Matthew 24:7 (L T Tr text WH omit καί λοιμοί); Luke 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. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dearth, famine, hunger. Probably from leipo (through the idea of destitution); a scarcity of food -- dearth, famine, hunger. see GREEK leipo Forms and Transliterations λιμοι λιμοί λιμοὶ λιμον λιμόν λιμὸν λιμος λιμός λιμὸς λιμού λιμω λιμώ λιμῷ λίμω λιμώξουσιν λινά λινάς λινή λινήν λινοίς λινοκαλάμη λινούν λοιμοὶ limo limō limoi limoí limoì limôi limō̂i limon limòn limos limós limòs loimoi loimoìLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 304212 Occurrences λιμῷ — 3 Occ. λιμοὶ — 3 Occ. λιμὸν — 1 Occ. λιμὸς — 5 Occ. Matthew 24:7 N-NMP GRK: καὶ ἔσονται λιμοὶ καὶ σεισμοὶ NAS: places there will be famines and earthquakes. KJV: there shall be famines, and INT: and there will be famines and earthquakes Mark 13:8 N-NMP Luke 4:25 N-NMS Luke 15:14 N-NMS Luke 15:17 N-DMS Luke 21:11 N-NMP Acts 7:11 N-NMS Acts 11:28 N-AMS Romans 8:35 N-NMS 2 Corinthians 11:27 N-DMS Revelation 6:8 N-DMS Revelation 18:8 N-NMS |