ΛΙΜΩ, λιμω
LIMŌ, limō
Sounds Like: lee-MOH
Translations: (to) famine, (to) hunger, (by) famine, (by) hunger
From the root: ΛΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a severe scarcity of food, leading to widespread hunger and starvation, or simply the state of being hungry. It is used here in the dative case, often indicating the means or instrument by which something occurs, or the state in which something happens, such as 'by famine' or 'in hunger'.
Inflection: Dative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3042 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:14
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 56:9
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judith — 7:14
- Psalms — 32:19
- Job — 5:20, 18:11, 30:3
- Isaiah — 14:30
- Jeremiah — 11:22, 14:12, 14:15, 16:4, 21:9, 34:8, 39:36, 45:2, 49:17, 49:22, 51:12, 51:13, 51:18, 51:27
- Lamentations — 2:19
- Revelation — 6:8
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 9:318
- Book 6 — 7:136
- Book 7 — 12:294
- Book 8 — 13:322
- Book 9 — 4:61, 4:82
- Book 10 — 7:112, 7:118
- Book 13 — 11:302, 15:391
- Book 14 — 15:418, 16:475
- Book 18 — 6:175
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 41:36
- Exodus — 16:3
- Deuteronomy — 28:48, 32:24
- Judith — 7:14
- 1 Maccabees — 13:49
- Psalms — 32:19
- Odes — 2:24
- Job — 5:20, 18:11, 30:3
- Isaiah — 14:30
- Jeremiah — 11:22, 14:12, 14:15, 16:4, 21:9, 34:6, 39:36, 45:2, 49:17, 49:22, 51:12, 51:13, 51:18, 51:27
- Lamentations — 2:19, 2:21
- Baruch — 2:25
- Ezekiel — 5:12, 6:11, 6:12, 34:29
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΛΙΜΟΥ — of hunger, of famine, of scarcity
- 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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