Definition

"pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave

Etymology

from the same as G3993 (πένης) (through the idea of pinching toil;

Word family

• πένης pénēs

How the KJV renders it

• be an hungered

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.