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Lexicon :: Strong's G3983 - peinaō

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πεινάω
Transliteration
peinaō (Key)
Pronunciation
pi-nah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as πένης (G3993) (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine")
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:12,820

Strong’s Definitions

πεινάω peináō, pi-nah'-o; from the same as G3993 (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave:—be an hungered.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G3983 in the following manner: hunger (10x), be an hungred (9x), be hungry (3x), hungry (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G3983 in the following manner: hunger (10x), be an hungred (9x), be hungry (3x), hungry (1x).

  1. to hunger, be hungry

    1. to suffer want

    2. to be needy

  2. metaph. to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πεινάω peináō, pi-nah'-o; from the same as G3993 (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave:—be an hungered.
STRONGS G3983:
πεινάω, πείνω, infinitive πεινᾶν (Philippians 4:12); future πεινάσω (Luke 6:25; Revelation 7:16); 1 aorist ἐπείνασα — for the earlier forms πεινην, πεινήσω, ἐπείνησα; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., pp. 61 and 204; Winers Grammar, § 13, 3 b.; (Buttmann, 37 (32); 44 (38)); see also διψάω; (from πεινᾷ hunger; (see πένης)); from Homer down; the Sept. for רָעֵב; to hunger, be hungry;
a. properly: Matthew 4:2; Matthew 12:1, 3; Matthew 21:18; Matthew 25:35, 37, 42, 44; Mark 2:25; Mark 11:12; Luke 4:2; Luke 6:3, 25; equivalent to to suffer want, Romans 12:20; 1 Corinthians 11:21, 34; to be needy, Luke 1:53; Luke 6:21; Philippians 4:12; in this same sense it is joined with δίψαν, 1 Corinthians 4:11; in figurative discourse, οὐ πεινᾶν καί οὐ δίψαν is used to describe the condition of one who is in need of nothing requisite for his real (spiritual) life and salvation, John 6:35; Revelation 7:16.
b. metaphorically, to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire: with the accusative of the thing, τήν δικαιοσύνην, Matthew 5:6 (in the better Greek authors with a genitive as χρημάτων, Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 39; συμμαχων, 7, 5, 50; ἐπαινου, oec. 13, 9; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 10, b. at the end; (Buttmann, § 131, 4); Kuinoel on Matthew 5:6, and see διψάω, 2).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:2; 5:6; 5:6; 12:1; 12:3; 21:18; 25:35; 25:37; 25:42; 25:44
Mark
2:25; 11:12
Luke
1:53; 4:2; 6:3; 6:21; 6:25; 6:25
John
6:35
Romans
12:20
1 Corinthians
4:11; 11:21; 11:34
Philippians
4:12; 4:12
Revelation
7:16; 7:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3983 matches the Greek πεινάω (peinaō),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:2 - and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:6 - Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for *they* shall be filled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:1 - At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears and to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:3 - But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:18 - But early in the morning, as he came back into the city, he hungered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:35 - for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:37 - Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:42 - for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 - Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:25 - And *he* said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, *he* and those with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:12 - And on the morrow, when they were gone out of Bethany, he hungered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:53 - He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent away the rich empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:2 - forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:3 - And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:21 - Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:25 - Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:35 - And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20 - If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:11 - To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:21 - For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:34 - If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:12 - I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:16 - They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any burning heat;
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