ΛΙΜΟΥ, λιμου
LIMOU, limou
Sounds Like: LEE-moo
Translations: of hunger, of famine, of scarcity
From the root: ΛΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to hunger, famine, or scarcity. It is used here in the genitive case, indicating possession or origin, often translated with 'of' or 'from'. For example, it could describe the cause of something, such as 'deaths of famine' or 'suffering from hunger'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G3042 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 8:161, 18:259
- Book 2 — 1:3, 5:81, 6:114, 6:142, 6:144, 6:165
- Book 3 — 15:320
- Book 6 — 14:360
- Book 9 — 4:65, 4:74, 4:75, 4:83
- Book 10 — 8:134
- Book 13 — 1:3, 10:276
- Book 20 — 2:51
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:27, 3:17, 20:14
- Book Three — 7:58
- Book Five — 11:9, 13:22
- Book Six — 1:1, 1:13, 3:17, 3:23, 6:40, 7:12, 8:32
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 26:1, 41:27, 41:30, 41:31, 41:36, 41:50, 41:54, 47:13
- 1 Chronicles — 21:12
- Tobit — 4:13
- Psalms — 36:19
- Psalms of Solomon — 13:2
- Sirach — 18:25, 51:19
- Jeremiah — 14:16, 14:18, 21:7, 39:24, 45:9
- Lamentations — 4:9, 5:10
- Ezekiel — 5:16, 12:16, 36:30
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΙΜΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΙΜΟΝ — famine, a famine, hunger, a hunger
- ΛΕΙΜΟΙ — famines, a famine
- ΛΙΜΟ — famine, hunger, a famine, a hunger
- ΛΙΜΟΙ — famines, hungers
- ΛΙΜΟΝ — famine, a famine, hunger, a hunger
- ΛΙΜΟΣ — famine, a famine, hunger
- ΛΙΜΩ — (to) famine, (to) hunger, (by) famine, (by) hunger
- ΛΙΜΩΣ — famine, hunger, a famine, a hunger, scarcity of food
- ΛΙΜΩΤΟ — famine-stricken, hungry, starving, by famine
- ΤΟΝΛΙΜΟΝ — the famine, a famine, the hunger, a hunger
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