STRONGS G3042:
λιμός,
λιμοῦ,
ὁ (and
ἡ in Doric and later writings; so
L T Tr WH in
Luke 15:14;
Acts 11:28; so, too, in
Isaiah 8:21;
1 Kings 18:2; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 188; (Liddell and Scott, under the word at the beginning;
WHs Appendix, p. 157a);
Buttmann, 12 (11);
Winers Grammar, 63 (62) (cf. 36), and 526 (490)); the
Sept. very often for
רָעָב;
hunger:
Luke 15:17;
Romans 8:35;
ἐν λιμῷ καί δίψει,
2 Corinthians 11:21;
Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 13; equivalent to
scarcity of harvest, famine:
Luke 4:25;
Luke 15:14;
Acts 7:11;
Acts 11:28 (cf.
Buttmann, 81 (71));
Revelation 6:8;
Revelation 18:8;
λιμοί,
famines in divers lands,
Mark 13:8;
λιμοί καί λοιμοί,
Matthew 24:7 (
L T Tr text
WH omit
καί λοιμοί);
Luke 21:11;
Theophilus ad Autol. 2, 9; the two are joined in the singular in
Hesiod, Works, 226;
Herodotus 7, 171;
Philo, vit. Moys. i. § 19;
Plutarch, de Isa. et Osir. 47.
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