G3983: πεινάω
peináō · “to hunger”
Definition
"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
KJV translates it as: be an hungered
Word origin: from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;
Extended definition
[in LXX chiefly for = רָעֵב ;]
to hunger, be hungry: Mat.4:2 12:1, 3 21:18 25:35, 37 25:42, 44, Mrk.2:25 11:12, Luk.1:53 4:2 6:3, Rom.12:20" (LXX), 1Co.4:11 11:21 11:34 Php.4:12, Rev.7:16; metaphorically, Mat.5:6, Luk.6:21, 25, Jhn.6:35.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3983 is translated
- hungering ×4
- he was hungry. ×3
- hungered ×2
- i hungered ×2
- is hungry, ×2
- he was hungry ×1
- he became hungry, ×1
- those hungering ×1
- was hungry ×1
- you will hunger. ×1
- may hunger, ×1
- shall hunger ×1
Bible verses with G3983 (peináō)
Peináō appears in 23 verses.
- Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
- Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
- Matthew 12:3
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
- Matthew 21:18
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
- Matthew 25:35
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
- Matthew 25:37
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
- Matthew 25:42
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
- Matthew 25:44
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
- Mark 2:25
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
- Mark 11:12
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
- Luke 1:53
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- Luke 4:2
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Luke 6:3
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
- Luke 6:21
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
- Luke 6:25
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
- John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
- Romans 12:20
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
- 1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
- 1 Corinthians 11:21
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
- 1 Corinthians 11:34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
- Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
- Revelation 7:16
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.