# πεινάω (peinaō)

Strong’s G3983. 23 New Testament occurrences.

I am hungry, needy, desire earnestly.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/peinao-g3983

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/4/2) — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- [Matthew 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/5/6) — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
- [Matthew 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/12/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/12/3) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/21/18) — Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
- [Matthew 25:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/25/35) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/25/37) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/25/42) — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
- [Matthew 25:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/25/44) — 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 un…
- [Mark 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/2/25) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/11/12) — And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
- [Luke 1:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/1/53) — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- [Luke 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/4/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/6/3) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/6/21) — Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
- [Luke 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/6/25) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/6/35) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/12/20) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/4/11) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/11/21) — For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
- [1 Corinthians 11:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/11/34) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/philippians/4/12) — 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 s…
- [Revelation 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/revelation/7/16) — They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.