King James Bible Dictionary - Strongs Number

G3983 - Hungry

Strong's No.:	G3983

Greek:	πεινάω

Transliteration:	peinaō

Phonetic:	pi-nah'-o

Word Origin:	From the same as G3993 (through the idea of pinching toil

Bible Usage:	be an hungered.

Part of Speech:	Verb

Strongs Definition:	pine); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively to crave

Thayers Definition:	1. to hunger, be hungry a. to suffer want b. to be needy 2. metaph. to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire

Bible References: Hungry	Mat 4:2 Mat 12:1 Mat 12:3 Mat 25:35 Mat 25:37 Mat 25:42 Mat 25:44 Mark 2:25 Mark 11:12 Luke 1:53 Luke 6:3 1 Cor 11:21 Phil 4:12

Translation Occurrences:	hunger ( 8 ) hungered ( 2 ) hungry ( 13 )

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.