peinaō · be hungry

What it means

peinaō (πεινάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “be hungry”.

Also long for something.

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. To feel in the body the lack of food.
2. To long for something, like righteousness.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• hungry ×20
• They will hunger ×1
• those who hunger ×1
• we hunger ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Mark×2
• Luke×5
• John×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×3
• Philippians×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 4:2

  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

• Matthew 5:6

  Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

• Matthew 12:1

  At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pick heads of grain and to eat.

• Matthew 12:3

  But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,

• Matthew 21:18

  Now in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.

• Matthew 25:35

  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me;

• Matthew 25:37

  Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

• Matthew 25:42

  For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat; I was thirsty and you did not give me drink;

• Matthew 25:44

  Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve you?’

• Mark 2:25

  And he says to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry, he and those with him,

• Mark 11:12

  And on the next day, as they came out from Bethany, he was hungry.

• Luke 1:53

  the hungry he has filled with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

• Luke 4:2

  for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he did not eat anything in those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry.

• Luke 6:3

  And answering them, Jesus said, “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

• Luke 6:21

  Happy are those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Happy are those who weep now, because you will laugh.

• Luke 6:25

  Woe to you who are full now, because you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep.

• John 6:35

  Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty again.

• Romans 12:20

  But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for by doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.

• 1 Corinthians 4:11

  To this present hour we hunger and thirst and are poorly clothed and are beaten and have no fixed home,

• 1 Corinthians 11:21

  for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper, and one is hungry and another gets drunk.

• 1 Corinthians 11:34

  If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you may not come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order whenever I come.

• Philippians 4:12

  I know also how to be brought low, I know also how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret, both to be well fed and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

• Revelation 7:16

  They will hunger no more, nor will they thirst anymore, nor will the sun ever fall on them, nor any scorching heat,