UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to be hungry, to have hunger

Semantic entry: 23.29

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: to be in a state of hunger, without any implications of particular contributing circumstances

Notes: Hunger is often spoken of in an idiomatic manner, for example, ‘my stomach is crying,’ ‘my throat has been cut’ (implying that one has not been able to swallow food for a long time), or ‘my stomach is a deep hole.’

MAT 4:2: RV MAT 4:2 · LV MAT 4:2 · Read together MAT 4:2

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OET-RV MAT 4:2

2 As he’d been fasting for forty days (and nights), he was hungry,

OET-LV MAT 4:2

2 And having _fasted forty days and forty nights, later he _hungered.

MAT 12:1: RV MAT 12:1 · LV MAT 12:1 · Read together MAT 12:1

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OET-RV MAT 12:1

12 At that time, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was going through some fields of grain on a rest day, and his apprentices were hungry and began to pluck some heads of grain and crunch them.

OET-LV MAT 12:1

12 At that the time, the Yaʸsous was _gone on _the days _of _rest through the grainfields, and the the_apprentices/followers of _him hungered, and began to _be _plucking heads _of _grain and to _be _eating.

All 21 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 4:2 · RV MAT 12:1 · RV MAT 12:3 · RV MAT 21:18 · RV MAT 25:35 · RV MAT 25:37 · RV MAT 25:42 · RV MAT 25:44 · LV MAT 4:2 · LV MAT 12:1 · LV MAT 12:3 · LV MAT 21:18 · LV MAT 25:35 · LV MAT 25:37 · LV MAT 25:42 · LV MAT 25:44 · Read together MAT 4:2 · Read together MAT 12:1 · Read together MAT 12:3 · Read together MAT 21:18 · Read together MAT 25:35 · Read together MAT 25:37 · Read together MAT 25:42 · Read together MAT 25:44

MRK: RV MRK 2:25 · RV MRK 11:12 · LV MRK 2:25 · LV MRK 11:12 · Read together MRK 2:25 · Read together MRK 11:12

LUK: RV LUK 1:53 · RV LUK 4:2 · RV LUK 6:3 · RV LUK 6:21 · RV LUK 6:25 · LV LUK 1:53 · LV LUK 4:2 · LV LUK 6:3 · LV LUK 6:21 · LV LUK 6:25 · Read together LUK 1:53 · Read together LUK 4:2 · Read together LUK 6:3 · Read together LUK 6:21 · Read together LUK 6:25

JHN: RV JHN 6:35 · LV JHN 6:35 · Read together JHN 6:35

ROM: RV ROM 12:20 · LV ROM 12:20 · Read together ROM 12:20

CO1: RV CO1 4:11 · RV CO1 11:21 · RV CO1 11:34 · LV CO1 4:11 · LV CO1 11:21 · LV CO1 11:34 · Read together CO1 4:11 · Read together CO1 11:21 · Read together CO1 11:34

PHP: RV PHP 4:12 · LV PHP 4:12 · Read together PHP 4:12

Sense 2: to desire strongly

Semantic entry: 25.17

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Desire Strongly

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning of πεινάω ‘to hunger,’ 23.29: πεινάω) to have a strong desire to attain some goal, with the implication of an existing lack

Notes: In RV MAT 5:6 · LV MAT 5:6 · Read together MAT 5:6 the two terms διψάω and πεινάω mutually reinforce the meaning of great desire.

MAT 5:6: RV MAT 5:6 · LV MAT 5:6 · Read together MAT 5:6

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OET-RV MAT 5:6

6 “Those who are hungry and thirsty to obey God are blessed, because they’ll be satisfied.

OET-LV MAT 5:6

6 Blessed are the ones hungering and thirsting the for _righteousness, because they will _be _being _satisfied.

REV 7:16: RV REV 7:16 · LV REV 7:16 · Read together REV 7:16

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OET-RV REV 7:16

16 They won’t be hungry or thirsty any longer, and the sun won’t burn them with its scorching heat,

OET-LV REV 7:16

16 Neither they _will _be _hungering anymore, nor they _will _be _thirsting anymore, nor not may _fall on them the sun, nor any burning,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

πεινάω

Form 1

Sense 1: to be hungry, to have hunger

Sense 2: to desire strongly