Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to hunger, be hungry, Mt. 4:2; Mk. 11:12; to be exposed to hunger, be famished, 1 Cor. 4:11; Phil. 4:12; met. to hunger after, desire earnestly, long for, Mt. 5:6
Translated in KJV as
be an hungered
Etymology
from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;
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