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Lexicon :: Strong's G3983 - peinaō

Aa
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 39 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - And Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 -
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread;
And they that were hungry have ceased to hunger:
Yea, the barren hath borne seven;
And she that hath many children languisheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7 -
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink,
And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10 -
So that they go about naked without clothing,
And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10 -
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger;
But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:12 -
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;
For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:5 -
Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:9 -
For he satisfieth the longing soul,
And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:36 -
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,
That they may prepare a city of habitation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:7 -
Who executeth justice for the oppressed;
Who giveth food to the hungry.
Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8 -
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:15 -
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep;
And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 -
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:15 -
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear,
So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

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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 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12 - to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:29 - He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The smith maketh an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2 - They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 - They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:7 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 - and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14 - saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:7 - and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:16 - neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
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