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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")
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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 when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. G3983

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:6 - Blessed are they which do hunger G3983 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 day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, G3983 and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:3 - But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, G3983 and they that were with him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:18 - Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. G3983

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:35 - For I was an hungred, G3983 and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me 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 an hungred, G3983 and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:42 - For I was an hungred, G3983 and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 - Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, G3983 or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:25 - And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, G3983 he, and they that were with him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:12 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: G3983

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:53 - He hath filled the hungry G3983 with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:2 - Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. G3983

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:3 - And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, G3983 and they which were with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:21 - Blessed are ye that hunger G3983 now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:25 - Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. G3983 Woe unto you that 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 unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; G3983 and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20 - Therefore if thine enemy hunger, G3983 feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:11 - Even unto this present hour we G3983 ➔ both hunger, G3983 and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:21 - For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, G3983 and another is drunken.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:34 - And if any man hunger, G3983 let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

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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: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, G3983 both to abound and to suffer need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:16 - They shall hunger G3983 no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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