Quick Definition
I am hungry, needy
Strong's Definition
"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
Derivation: from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;
KJV Usage: be an hungered
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πεινάω, πείνω, infinitive πεινᾶν (Php_4:12); future πεινάσω (Luk_6:25; Rev_7:16); 1 aorist ἐπείνασα for the earlier forms πεινην, πεινήσω, ἐπείνησα; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., pp. 61 and 204; Winers Grammar, § 13, 3 b.; (Buttmann, 37 (32); 44 (38)); see also διψάω; (from πεινᾷ hunger; (see πένης)); from Homer down; the Sept. for ψΘςΕα; to hunger, be hungry;
a. properly: Mat_4:2; Mat_12:1; Mat_12:3; Mat_21:18; Mat_25:35; Mat_25:37; Mat_25:42; Mat_25:44; Mar_2:25; Mar_11:12; Luk_4:2; Luk_6:3; Luk_6:25; equivalent to to suffer want, Rom_12:20; 1Co_11:21; 1Co_11:34; to be needy, Luk_1:53; Luk_6:21; Php_4:12; in this same sense it is joined with δίψαν, 1Co_4:11; in figurative discourse, οὐ πεινᾶν καί οὐ δίψαν is used to describe the condition of one who is in need of nothing requisite for his real (spiritual) life and salvation, Joh_6:35; Rev_7:16.
b. metaphorically, to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire: with the accusative of the thing, τήν δικαιοσύνην, Mat_5:6 (in the better Greek authors with a genitive as χρημάτων, Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 39; συμμαχων, 7, 5, 50; ἐπαινου, oec. 13, 9; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 10, b. at the end; (Buttmann, § 131, 4); Kuinoel on Mat_5:6, and see διψάω, 2).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πεινάω peinaō 23x
to hunger, be hungry, Mat_4:2 ; Mar_11:12 ;
to be exposed to hunger, be famished, 1Co_4:11 ; Php_4:12 ;
met. to hunger after, desire earnestly, long for, Mat_5:6 hungry.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πεινάω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX chiefly for = H7456 ;]
to hunger, be hungry: Mat_4:2 ; Mat_12:1 ; Mat_12:3 ; Mat_21:18 ; Mat_25:35 ; Mat_25:37 ; Mat_25:42 ; Mat_25:44 , Mar_2:25 ; Mar_11:12 , Luk_1:53 ; Luk_4:2 ; Luk_6:3 , Rom_12:20 ( LXX ), 1Co_4:11 ; 1Co_11:21 ; 1Co_11:34 Php_4:12 , Rev_7:16 ; metaph ., Mat_5:6 , Luk_6:21 ; Luk_6:25 , Joh_6:35 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πεινάω [page 501]
hunger : cf. P Flor I. 61 .54 (A.D. 85) (= Chrest. II. p. 89 ) λειμοῦ γεν [ομ ]ένου πε [ι ]ν̣ῶν οὐκ ἀπῄ [τ ]εις [τὸ ]ν πυρόν ; The construction c. acc. in Mat_5:6 appears to be unique. For the reading πίνων not πινῶν in P Par 47 .23 see s.v. πίνω , and for the disappearance of the ήω verbs from the Κοινή see Proleg. p. 54, Thackeray Gr. i. p. 242.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πεινάω [Etym: forms in αε contr. into η not α_, as in διψάω] [Etym: πεῖνα] "to be hungry, suffer hunger, be famished", Lat. esurio, Hom. , etc.: πεινᾶντι (doric for -ῶντι) μὴ προσενθῆις don't go near "a hungry man", Theocr. c. gen. "to hunger after", Od. : —metaph., π. χρημάτων, ἐπαίνου Xen. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πεινάω, -ῶ
[in LXX chiefly for = רָעֵב ;]
to hunger, be hungry: Mat.4:2 12:1, 3 21:18 25:35, 37 25:42, 44, Mrk.2:25 11:12, Luk.1:53 4:2 6:3, Rom.12:20" (LXX), 1Co.4:11 11:21 11:34 Php.4:12, Rev.7:16; metaphorically, Mat.5:6, Luk.6:21, 25, Jhn.6:35.†
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