λιμός
limós
“a scarcity of food”
12 occurrencesNew TestamentUncommon Word
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a scarcity of food
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
famine, scarcity of food, want of grain, Mt. 24:7; famine, hunger, famishment, Lk. 15:17; Rom. 8:35
Translated in KJV as
dearthfaminehunger
Etymology
probably from G3007 (λείπω) (through the idea of destitution);
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