λιμός
famine
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G3042 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Revelation. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
λιμος — transliterated limós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “famine.” Debuting at Matthew 24:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 12 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (33% of all occurrences). From the same root come λειπω, λειμμα and λοιποι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3042 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 4 verses 33%
- Acts 2 verses 17%
- Revelation 2 verses 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 17%
- Revelation 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Famine 4×, Famines 3×, Hunger 3×
- American Standard Version: Famine 7×, Famines 3×, Hunger 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Famine 7×, Famines 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Famine 6×, A 3×, Famines 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3042 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3042 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3042 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3042 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- scarcity of harvest, famine
Word origin
Derived from λειπω (leípō) (G3007) — to leave.
Probably from G3007 (through the idea of destitution ); a scarcity of food : - dearth famine hunger.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G3042 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λιμὸς limòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 4:25 | 4 |
| λιμῷ limō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 15:17 | 3 |
| λιμοὶ limoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:7 | 2 |
| λιμοί limoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 13:8 | 1 |
| λιμός limós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:8 | 1 |
| λιμὸν limòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 11:28 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3042, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λιμος appears 100 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 89 verses in 16 books.
- 100
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 89
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:10 λιμός
- Exodus 16:3 λιμός
- Deuteronomy 28:48 λιμός
- Ruth 1:1 λιμός
- 2 Samuel 21:1 λιμός
- 1 Kings 8:37 λιμός
- 2 Kings 4:38 λιμός
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 λιμός
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 λιμός
- Job 5:20 λιμός
- Psalms 32:19 λιμός
- Isaiah 5:13 λιμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3042) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 89. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:10 λιμός There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 26:1 λιμός There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Genesis 41:27 λιμός The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
- Genesis 41:30 λιμός There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
- Genesis 41:31 λιμός and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
- Genesis 41:36 λιμός The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."
- Genesis 41:50 λιμός To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
- Genesis 41:54 λιμός The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Genesis 41:56 λιμός The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:57 λιμός All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
- Genesis 42:5 λιμός The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 43:1 λιμός The famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 45:6 λιμός For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
- Genesis 45:11 λιμός There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
- Genesis 47:4 λιμός They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
- Genesis 47:13 λιμός There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
- Genesis 47:20 λιμός So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
- Exodus 16:3 λιμός and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- Deuteronomy 28:48 λιμός therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 λιμός [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
- Ruth 1:1 λιμός It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 λιμός There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 λιμός So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
- 1 Kings 8:37 λιμός 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; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;
- 1 Kings 18:2 λιμός Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was sore in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 4:38 λιμός Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
- 2 Kings 6:25 λιμός There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
- 2 Kings 7:4 λιμός 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 to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
- 2 Kings 8:1 λιμός Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
- 2 Kings 25:3 λιμός 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.
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 λιμός either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 λιμός 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; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
- 2 Chronicles 20:9 λιμός If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 λιμός Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Job 5:20 λιμός In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword.
- Job 18:11 λιμός Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
- Job 30:3 λιμός They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- Job 30:4 λιμός They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
- Psalms 32:19 λιμός
- Psalms 36:19 λιμός
- Psalms 104:16 λιμός Yahweh's trees are well watered, The cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
- Isaiah 5:13 λιμός Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- Isaiah 8:21 λιμός They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
- Isaiah 14:30 λιμός The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.
- Isaiah 51:19 λιμός These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
- Jeremiah 5:12 λιμός They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
- Jeremiah 11:22 λιμός therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
- Jeremiah 14:12 λιμός 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.
- Jeremiah 14:13 λιμός Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
- Jeremiah 14:15 λιμός Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3042) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
