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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 live there for a time, because 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 - “The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin 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 [fn]come, 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 the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - “Let the food be used as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish 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, then there was famine in all the lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - When the famine was spread over the entire face of the earth, then Joseph opened all [fn]the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - Then the people of all the earth 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, because the famine was also in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 -

Now the famine was severe 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, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants 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 severe, 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. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’S hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread until we were full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger!”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and devoid 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 emaciated by [fn]plague

And a bitter epidemic;

And the teeth of beasts I will send against them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

Now it came about in the days when the judges [fn]governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to reside in the land of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 -

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of 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 for three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 -

“If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is [fn]blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy harasses them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

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

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - So there was a severe famine in Samaria; and behold, they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for 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; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now then come, and let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then 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 live wherever you can live; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will indeed come on the land for seven years.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD: a plague in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall bring back to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 -

“If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is blight 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 - ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, or judgment, or plague, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for Your name is in this house), and cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear and save us.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - ‘Is Hezekiah not misleading you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “The LORD our God will save 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 the power of the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 -

“All around sudden terrors frighten him,

And harass him at every step.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 -

“From poverty and famine they are gaunt,

They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 -

Who pluck saltweed by the bushes,

And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 -

To rescue 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 have plenty.

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 their [fn]nobles are famished,

And their multitude is parched with thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - They will pass through [fn]the land dejected and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged and curse [fn]their king and their God as they face upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 -

[fn]Those who are most helpless will eat,

And the poor will lie down in security;

I will kill your root with famine,

And it will kill your survivors.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 -

These two things have happened to you;

Who will mourn for you?

The devastation and destruction, famine and sword;

How shall I comfort you?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 -

They have lied about the LORD

And said, “[fn]Not He;

Misfortune will not come upon us,

Nor will we see sword or famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore, this is what the LORD of armies says: “Behold, I am going to punish them! The young 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 put an end to them by the sword, famine, and plague.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 -

But I said, “Oh, Lord [fn]GOD! Behold, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see a sword, nor will you have famine; on the contrary, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says 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 sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

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