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Lexicon :: Strong's G3042 - limos

Aa
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, 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.
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bare unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - And the famine was sore in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - If evil come 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 unto thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 -
In famine he will redeem thee from death;
And in war from the power of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 -
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,
And shall chase him at his heels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 -
They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 -
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes;
And the roots of the broom are their food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 -
To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:19 -
They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil;
And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 -
And he called for a famine upon the land;
He brake the whole staff of bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

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