Strong's #3983: peinao (pronounced pi-nah'-o)
from the same as 3993 (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave:--be an hungered.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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peinaō
1) to hunger, be hungry
1a) to suffer want
1b) to be needy
2) metaphorically to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from the same as G3993 (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine" )
Citing in TDNT: 6:12, 820
Usage:
This word is used 23 times:
Matthew 4:2: "and forty nights, he was afterward hungry."
Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Matthew 12:1: "and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn,"
Matthew 12:3: "did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;"
Matthew 21:18: "into the city, he hungered."
Matthew 25:35: "For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and"
Matthew 25:37: "when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty,"
Matthew 25:42: "For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty,"
Matthew 25:44: "when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger,"
Mark 2:25: "he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with"
Mark 11:12: "were come from Bethany, he was hungry:"
Luke 1:53: "He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away."
Luke 4:2: "when they were ended, he afterward hungered."
Luke 6:3: "what David did, when himself was hungry, and they which were"
Luke 6:21: "Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now:"
Luke 6:25: "unto you that are full for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now!"
John 6:35: "to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me"
Romans 12:20: "if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst,"
1 Corinthians 4:11: "this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked,"
1 Corinthians 11:21: "supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken."
1 Corinthians 11:34: "And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that"
Philippians 4:12: "I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and"
Revelation 7:16: " They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither"
