UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

λιμός

MainId: 003062000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: λ

StrongCodes: G3042

Notes: {'Caller': 1, 'LanguageCode': 'en', 'LastEdited': '', 'LastEditedBy': '', 'References': [], 'Content': '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.'}

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 003062001000000
PartsOfSpeech: noun, m./f.
Inflections:
1. Lemma: λιμός
  BaseFormIndex: 1
  Realizations: -οῦ
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 003062001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 23.33
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Physiological Processes and States
  LEXSubDomains: Eat, Drink
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-11-10 12:04:27
    DefinitionShort: a widespread lack of food over a considerable period of time and resulting in hunger for many people{N:001}
    Glosses: ['famine', 'hunger']
    Comments: 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.)
  LEXReferences: MAT 24:7, MARK 13:8, LUKE 4:25, LUKE 15:14, LUKE 21:11, ACTs 7:11, ACTs 11:28, REV 6:8, REV 18:8
2. LEXID: 003062001002000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 23.31
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Physiological Processes and States
  LEXSubDomains: Eat, Drink
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-11-10 12:04:27
    DefinitionShort: the state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare {L:νηστεία}[a] ‘fasting,’ {D:53.65})
    Glosses: ['to be quite hungry', 'considerable hunger', 'lack of food']
    Comments: Terms referring to hunger often distinguish varying degrees of hunger and whether the hunger is by necessity or by choice.
  LEXReferences: LUKE 15:17, ROM 8:35, 2COR 11:27