Strong's G3983
πεινάω(peináō)
- Language:
- Greek (New Testament)
Definition
"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave
Derivation
from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, πεινάω is translated as: be an hungered.
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.