Words the Bible translates as hunger
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- limosλιμόςthe want of food: not having enough to eat, whether one person is starving or a whole region's food supply has failed
- ra'avרָעָבa severe shortage of food, whether a whole land's famine or a single body's hunger
- peinaōπεινάωto be hungry: to feel the bodily need for food, and so to crave something as intensely as a starving person craves a meal
- nēsteiaνηστείαa fast: a stretch of time with no food taken, normally chosen as an act of devotion to God alongside prayer, sometimes simply food gone without
- kaphanכָּפַןto hungernot studied yet
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