Strong's #3042: limos (pronounced lee-mos')

probably from 3007 (through the idea of destitution); a scarcity of food:--dearth, famine, hunger.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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limos

1) scarcity of harvest, famine

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Matthew 24:7: "kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,"
Mark 13:8: "in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these"
Luke 4:25: "months, when great famine was throughout all the"
Luke 15:14: "all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and"
Luke 15:17: "have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!"
Luke 21:11: "shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and"
Acts 7:11: "Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt"
Acts 11:28: "that there should be great dearth throughout all the world:"
Romans 8:35: "or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,"
2 Corinthians 11:27: "watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings"
Revelation 6:8: "sword, and with hunger, and with death, and"
Revelation 18:8: "death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with"