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Strong's G3983 πεινάω (peinao)

Peinao means “be an hungered” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3983 — memar (“appointment”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3983
Language Greek
Linked Usages 67
Books 24

Strong's G3983 Quick Answer

Strong's G3983 πεινάω (peinao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. peinao (pei-nah'-o) v. 1. to famish 2. (figuratively) to crave It has 67 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include through. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
peinao (pei-nah'-o) v. 1. to famish 2. (figuratively) to crave
Usage
67 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
through

Meaning and Definition

peinao (pei-nah'-o) v. 1. to famish 2. (figuratively) to crave {absolutely or comparatively} [from a primary peno "to toil for daily subsistence" through the idea of pinching toil, "pine"] KJV: be an hungered See also: G3993

Original Word
πεινάω
Transliteration
peinao
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3983. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to hunger

Usage: 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.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3983 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render peinao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

through Matthew 12:1

How Strong's G3983 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 38 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3983 (πεινάω) appears 44 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3983 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3983 in the New Testament

23 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 4:2 KJV

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Matthew 5:6 KJV

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Matthew 12:1 KJV

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.

Strong's G3983 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

38 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 41:55 Septuagint / Brenton

And all the land of Egypt was hungry; and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph, and do whatsoever he shall tell you.

Deuteronomy 25:18 Septuagint / Brenton

how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, even those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.

Judges 8:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And Gideon came to Jordan, and went over, himself and the three hundred with him, hungry, yet pursuing.

Strong's G3983 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 1:17 Septuagint / Brenton

and my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation dead, or cast about the walls of Nineveh, I buried him.

1 Maccabees 13:49 Septuagint / Brenton

They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.

Wisdom of Sirach 4:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Make not a hungry soul sorrowful; Neither provoke a man in his distress.

Usage Excerpts

First 67 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3983.

Genesis 41:55 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the land of Egypt was hungry; and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph, and do whatsoever he shall tell you.
Deuteronomy 25:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, even those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.
Judges 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gideon came to Jordan, and went over, himself and the three hundred with him, hungry, yet pursuing.
1 Kingdoms 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that were full of bread are brought low; And the hungry have forsaken the land; For the barren has born seven, And she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.
2 Kingdoms 17:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for one said, The people is faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.
4 Kingdoms 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king rose up by night, and said to his servants, I will now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They knew that we are hungry; and they have gone forth from the camp and hidden themselves in the field, saying, They will come out of the city, and we shall catch them alive, and go into the city.
Job 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink, But hast taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Job 24:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, And taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Psalms 33:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The rich have become poor and hungry: But they that seek the Lord diligently shall not want any good thing. Pause.
Psalms 49:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: For the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
Psalms 106:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Psalms 106:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he satisfies the empty soul, And fills the hungry soul with good things,
Psalms 106:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there he causes the hungry to dwell, And they establish for themselves cities of habitation.
Psalms 145:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who executes judgment for the wronged: Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:
Proverbs 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear casts down the slothful; And the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
Proverbs 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; And the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
Proverbs 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 35:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 5:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe latchets be broken.
Isaiah 8:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers’ ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,
Isaiah 9:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.
Isaiah 28:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.
Isaiah 32:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.
Isaiah 40:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
Isaiah 40:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:
Isaiah 40:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
Isaiah 44:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
Isaiah 46:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.
Isaiah 49:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.
Isaiah 58:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.
Isaiah 58:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and if thou give bread to the hungry from thy heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as noonday:
Isaiah 65:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
Jeremiah 38:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Zion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, even to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.
Jeremiah 38:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
Jeremiah 49:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell:
Ezekiel 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;
Ezekiel 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
Matthew 4:2 New Testament, KJV
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew 5:6 New Testament, KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 12:1 New Testament, KJV
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
Matthew 12:3 New Testament, KJV
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Matthew 21:18 New Testament, KJV
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 25:35 New Testament, KJV
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Matthew 25:37 New Testament, KJV
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
Matthew 25:42 New Testament, KJV
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew 25:44 New Testament, KJV
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mark 2:25 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
Mark 11:12 New Testament, KJV
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
Luke 1:53 New Testament, KJV
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luke 4:2 New Testament, KJV
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Luke 6:3 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
Luke 6:21 New Testament, KJV
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:25 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
John 6:35 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Romans 12:20 New Testament, KJV
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
1 Corinthians 4:11 New Testament, KJV
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
1 Corinthians 11:21 New Testament, KJV
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians 11:34 New Testament, KJV
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Philippians 4:12 New Testament, KJV
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Revelation 7:16 New Testament, KJV
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Tobit 1:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation dead, or cast about the walls of Nineveh, I buried him.
1 Maccabees 13:49 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.
Wisdom of Sirach 4:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Make not a hungry soul sorrowful; Neither provoke a man in his distress.
Wisdom of Sirach 16:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He garnished his works forever, And the chief of them unto all generations: They neither labor, nor are weary, nor cease from their works.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They that eat me shall yet be hungry, And they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.
Baruch 2:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3983, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 9 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 5 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 3 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3983 FAQ

What does peinao (πεινάω) mean?

Peinao (Strong's G3983) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be an hungered". peinao (pei-nah'-o) v. 1. to famish 2. (figuratively) to crave

How many times is peinao (πεινάω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 67 linked usages for Strong's G3983 across 24 books.

Where can I study peinao (πεινάω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3983 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate peinao (πεινάω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as through. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3983 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 38 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3983, with linked reader references where each row is available.