1) to hunger, be hungry
1a) to suffer want
1b) to be needy
2) metaphorically to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 6:12, 820
G3983
From the same as G3993 (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively to crave: - be an hungered.
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| a be hungry | 23.29 |
| b desire strongly | 25.17 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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