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Koine Greek wordlink #91092

SR GNT Acts 11:28 λιμόν (limon) ‘by the spirit a famine great to_be going going_to_be’ Strongs=30420 Lemma=limos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=43 AD Event=Disciples_first_called_Christians TimeSeries=Disciples_first_called_Christians Referred to from Word #91097 Referred to from Word #91102

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Only use of identical word form λιμόν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λιμόν’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘a famine’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘limos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a famine’, ‘with famine’, ‘famine’, ‘famines’.

Greek words (8) other than λιμόν (N-AFS) with a gloss related to ‘famine’

LUKE 4:25 λιμός (limos) N-NMS ‘six when became a famine great on all’ SR GNT Luke 4:25 word 30

OET-LV: 25 But in truth I _am _saying to _you _all, were many widows in the days of _Aʸlias/(ʼĒliy^yāh) in the Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl), when the sky was _shut for three years and six months when a_ great _famine became on all the land, (LUK_4:25)

OET-RV: 25 There were certainly many widows in Yisrael in the days of Eliyah when God stopped the rain for three and a half years and caused a terrible famine. (LUK 4:25)

LUKE 15:14 λιμός (limos) N-NFS ‘of him all things there became a famine mighty throughout country’ SR GNT Luke 15:14 word 6

OET-LV: 14 But having _spent all things of _him, there _became a_ mighty _famine throughout the that country, and he began to _be _being _deficient. (LUK_15:14)

OET-RV: 14 However after he’d used up all his funds, a terrible famine hit that country, and he started to become needy, (LUK 15:14)

LUKE 15:17 λιμῷ (limōi) N-DMS ‘of bread I but with famine here am perishing’ SR GNT Luke 15:17 word 20

OET-LV: 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? (LUK_15:17)

OET-RV: 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. (LUK 15:17)

ACTs 7:11 λιμός (limos) N-NMS ‘came and a famine on all the’ SR GNT Acts 7:11 word 3

OET-LV: 11 And a_famine came on all the Aiguptos and Ⱪanaʼan/(Kinaˊan), and great tribulation, and the fathers of _us were_ not _finding food. (ACT_7:11)

OET-RV: 11 Then a famine hit all Egypt and Canaan causing great distress and our ancestors were unable to find enough food. (ACT 7:11)

ROM 8:35 λιμός (limos) N-NMS ‘or persecution or famine or nakedness or’ SR GNT Rom 8:35 word 21

OET-LV: 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? (ROM_8:35)

OET-RV: 35 Who will separate us from Messiah’s love? Tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or poverty or danger or execution? (ROM 8:35)

2 COR 11:27 λιμῷ (limōi) N-DMS ‘watchings often in famine and thirst in’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:27 word 9

OET-LV: 27 in _labour and hardship, in watchings often, in famine and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (CO2_11:27)

OET-RV: 27 I’ve worked often and worked hard, often needing to keep guard, suffered famine and thirst, fasted often, and been cold and lacking clothing. (CO2 11:27)

REV 6:8 λιμῷ (limōi) N-DMS ‘sword and with famine and with death’ SR GNT Rev 6:8 word 40

OET-LV: 8 And I _looked, and see, a_horse green, and the one sitting on it, the_name to _him was Death, and the Haidaʸs was _following with him, and was _given to _them authority over the fourth of _the earth, to _kill _off with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild _beasts of _the earth. (REV_6:8)

OET-RV: 8 Then I looked, and wow, there was a green horse. The one sitting on it was named ‘Death’, and Hades was sitting behind him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth: to execute people with the sword, with famine, with death, and with the wild animals on the earth. (REV 6:8)

REV 18:8 λιμός (limos) N-NMS ‘and mourning and famine and with fire’ SR GNT Rev 18:8 word 14

OET-LV: 8 Because _of this, in one day will _be _coming the plagues of _her, death, and mourning, and famine, and with fire she _will _be _being _burned _up, because mighty is the_master the god which having _judged her. (REV_18:8)

OET-RV: 8 Because of that, her plagues will suddenly arrive one day,
⇔ death and grief and famine.
⇔ She’ll be burnt up by fire,
⇔ because it’s the powerful Yahweh God who has judged her.” (REV 18:8)

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular DMS=dative,masculine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular