UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: λιμός[a] could be classified as a physical event, since a famine results from lack of rainfall or some natural disaster causing crops to fail. However, since a famine is so specifically related to peoples experience of hunger, it seems best to classify λιμός[a] together with other expressions involving lack of food.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m./f.

Inflections: λιμός; -οῦ

Sense 1: famine, hunger

Semantic entry: 23.33

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: a widespread lack of food over a considerable period of time and resulting in hunger for many people{N:001}

Notes: In a number of languages the only way of talking about a famine is to say ‘many people were very hungry for a long time’ or ‘many people had to go for days without anything to eat.’ It is important to distinguish clearly between a famine and voluntary abstinence from food for the sake of fasting. (See Domain 53H.)

MAT 24:7: RV MAT 24:7 · LV MAT 24:7 · Read together MAT 24:7

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OET-RV MAT 24:7

7 People groups will turn against each other, and countries rise up against one another, and there’ll be famines and earthquakes.

OET-LV MAT 24:7

7 For/Because nation will _be _being _raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and will _be famines and earthquakes in places.

MRK 13:8: RV MRK 13:8 · LV MRK 13:8 · Read together MRK 13:8

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OET-RV MRK 13:8

8 Countries will take up arms against other countries, and kingdoms against other kingdoms. There’ll be earthquakes in many places and there’ll be famines, but those will be just like the beginning of birth pains.

OET-LV MRK 13:8

8 For/Because nation will _be _being _raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
There _will _be earthquakes in places, there _will _be famines, these are the_beginning of _birth _pains.

All 9 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 24:7 · LV MAT 24:7 · Read together MAT 24:7

MRK: RV MRK 13:8 · LV MRK 13:8 · Read together MRK 13:8

LUK: RV LUK 4:25 · RV LUK 15:14 · RV LUK 21:11 · LV LUK 4:25 · LV LUK 15:14 · LV LUK 21:11 · Read together LUK 4:25 · Read together LUK 15:14 · Read together LUK 21:11

ACT: RV ACT 7:11 · RV ACT 11:28 · LV ACT 7:11 · LV ACT 11:28 · Read together ACT 7:11 · Read together ACT 11:28

REV: RV REV 6:8 · RV REV 18:8 · LV REV 6:8 · LV REV 18:8 · Read together REV 6:8 · Read together REV 18:8

Sense 2: to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food

Semantic entry: 23.31

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: the state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare νηστεία[a] ‘fasting,’ 53.65: νηστεία / 53.65: νηστεύω)

Notes: Terms referring to hunger often distinguish varying degrees of hunger and whether the hunger is by necessity or by choice.

LUK 15:17: RV LUK 15:17 · LV LUK 15:17 · Read together LUK 15:17

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OET-RV LUK 15:17

17 But he eventually came to his senses and said to himself, ‘Even my father’s workers have plenty of food, but here I am in this place dying of starvation.

OET-LV LUK 15:17

17 To but himself having _come he _was _saying:
How _many hired ones of _the father of _me are _being _plentiful of _bread, but I am _perishing with _famine here?

ROM 8:35: RV ROM 8:35 · LV ROM 8:35 · Read together ROM 8:35

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OET-RV ROM 8:35

35 Who will separate us from Messiah’s love? Troubles or distress or persecution or famine or poverty or danger or execution?

OET-LV ROM 8:35

35 Who us will _be _separating from the love of _the chosen _one /messiah?
Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 15:17 · LV LUK 15:17 · Read together LUK 15:17

ROM: RV ROM 8:35 · LV ROM 8:35 · Read together ROM 8:35

CO2: RV CO2 11:27 · LV CO2 11:27 · Read together CO2 11:27

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

λιμός

Form 1

Sense 1: famine, hunger

Sense 2: to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food