limos · famine, hunger

What it means

limos (λιμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “famine, hunger”.

Hunger; famine.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A time without food in a region.
2. A person's need for food.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• famine ×7
• famines ×3
• hunger ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 24:7

  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

• Mark 13:8

  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

• Luke 4:25

  But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

• Luke 15:14

  And when he had spent everything, a severe famine came over that country, and he began to be in need.

• Luke 15:17

  But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough bread, but I am perishing here with hunger!

• Luke 21:11

  There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

• Acts 7:11

  Then a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers were not finding food.

• Acts 11:28

  And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was going to come over all the inhabited world; and this took place in the time of Claudius.

• Romans 8:35

  Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

• 2 Corinthians 11:27

  in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Revelation 6:8

  And I looked, and look, a pale horse, and the one who sat on it, his name was Death, and Hades was following with him; and authority was given to them over the fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild animals of the earth.

• Revelation 18:8

  Therefore in one day her plagues will come, death and grief and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judged her.