Help QuickNav Adv. Options
RSV

RSV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G3042 - limos

Choose a new font size and typeface
λιμός
Transliteration
limos (Key)
Pronunciation
lee-mos'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from λείπω (G3007) (through the idea of destitution)
Dictionary Aids

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, 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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abim'elech king of the Philistines.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which will follow, for it will be very grievous.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the year of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera priest of On, bore to him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - Now the famine was severe in the land.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - 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 severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:1

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 face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gib'eonites to death."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - And Eli'sha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we say, 'Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Eli'sha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:3

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence upon the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - 'If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, for thy name is in this house, and cry to thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Is not Hezeki'ah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 - Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 - they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 - that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:19 - they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 - When he summoned a famine on the land, and broke every staff of bread,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And the first-born of the poor will feed, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I will slay.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things have befallen you--who will condole with you?--devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - They have spoken falsely of the LORD, and have said, 'He will do nothing; no evil will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not come on this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Gen 12:10–Jer 14:15) Gen 12:10–Jer 14:15

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jer 14:16–Amo 8:11

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
RSV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
RSV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan