G3983 – peinao – πεινάω be an hungered

Strong’s ID:
G3983
Greek Word:
πεινάω
Transliteration:
peinaō / peinao
Pronunciation:
pi-nah’-o
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage Count:
23
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from the same as (through the idea of pinching toil; “pine”); to famish (absol. or comparatively); figuratively, to crave:—be an hungered.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to hunger, be hungry
1a) to suffer want
1b) to be needy
2) metaphorically to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.