G3983 πεινάω
Strong's Greek Concordance · 27 KJV occurrences
πεινάω
peináō
Definition
"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
KJV Renderings
be an hungered
Derivation / Etymology
from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 27)
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matthew 12:1At 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 25:35For 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:
- Mark 2:25And 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?
- Luke 4:2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Luke 6:21Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
- Romans 12:20Therefore 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 11:21For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.