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G3042 · λιμός

limós

Primary-Source Attested

Strong’s definition

a scarcity of food

KJV gloss list in the source

dearth, famine, hunger

Derivation recorded by Strong

probably from G3007 (λείπω) (through the idea of destitution);

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