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Lexicon :: Strong's G3042 - limos

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λιμός
Transliteration
limos (Key)
Pronunciation
lee-mos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from λείπω (G3007) (through the idea of destitution)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:12,820

Strong’s Definitions

λιμός limós, lee-mos'; probably from G3007 (through the idea of destitution); a scarcity of food:—dearth, famine, hunger.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G3042 in the following manner: famine (7x), hunger (3x), dearth (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G3042 in the following manner: famine (7x), hunger (3x), dearth (2x).
  1. scarcity of harvest, famine

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λιμός limós, lee-mos'; probably from G3007 (through the idea of destitution); a scarcity of food:—dearth, famine, hunger.
STRONGS G3042:
λιμός, λιμοῦ, (and 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.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
18:2
Isaiah
8:21
Matthew
24:7
Mark
13:8
Luke
4:25; 15:14; 15:14; 15:17; 21:11
Acts
7:11; 11:28; 11:28
Romans
8:35
2 Corinthians
11:21
Revelation
6:8; 18:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3042 matches the Greek λιμός (limos),
which occurs 100 times in 89 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:10–Jer 14:15)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 -

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 -

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - “And the seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven lean ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - and after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will [fn]ravage the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - so that the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very heavy.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - “And let the food be appointed for the land for the seven years of famine which will happen in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not be cut off during the famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 -

Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of [fn]On, bore to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. So there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - Now the famine was over all the face of the land. And Joseph opened all [fn]the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - Now all the earth also came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who were coming, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 -

Now the famine was heavy in the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - “For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - “There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household and all that you have be impoverished.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 -

Now there was no [fn]food in all the land because the famine was very heavy, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 -

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for [fn]every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - And the sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of [fn]meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to put this whole assembly to death with hunger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by [fn]plague

And bitter destruction;

And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

Now it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 -

And there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your adversaries while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now, know and see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 -

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 -

Now Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. [fn]As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his young man, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - Now there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for [fn]eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [fn]kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, and let us [fn]go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 -

Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go [fn]with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your adversaries, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ So now, see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 -

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - ‘Should evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for Your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and save us.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - ‘Is not Hezekiah inciting you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “Yahweh our God will deliver us from the [fn]hand of the king of Assyria”?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 -

“In famine He will redeem you from death,

And in war from hands with swords.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 -

“All around terrors frighten him,

And harass him at every step.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 -

“From want and famine they are gaunt,

Who gnaw the dry ground by night in destruction and desolation,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 -

Who pluck [fn]mallow by the bushes,

And whose food is the root of the broom tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 -

To deliver their soul from death

And to keep them alive in famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:19 -

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,

And in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 -

And He called for a famine upon the land;

He broke the whole staff of bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 -

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;

And [fn]their honorable men are famished,

And their multitude is parched with thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - And they will pass through [fn]the land hard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse [fn]their king and their God as they face upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 -

[fn]And the foremost of the poor will eat,

And the needy will lie down in security;

I will put to death your root with famine,

And it will kill off your remnant.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 -

These two things have befallen you;

Who will console you?

The devastation and destruction, famine and sword;

How shall I comfort you?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 -

They have dealt falsely about Yahweh

And said, “[fn]Not He;

Calamity will not come on us,

And we will not see sword or famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - “When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 -

But, “Ah, Lord Yahweh!” I said, “Behold, the prophets are saying to them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you true peace in this place.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - “Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by that sword and famine those prophets shall [fn]meet their end!

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