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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Famish

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Famish

FAM'ISH, verb transitive [Latin fames.]

1. To starve; to kill or destroy with hunger.

2. To exhaust the strength of, by hunger or thirst; to distress with hunger.

The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.

3. To kill by deprivation or denial of any thing necessary for life.

FAM'ISH, verb intransitive

1. To die of hunger. More generally,

2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish, for want of food or drink.

You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish

3. To be distressed with want; to come near to perish by destitution.

The Lord will not suffer the righteous to famish Proverbs 10:3.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Famished

FAM'ISHED, participle passive Starved; exhausted by want of sustenance.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Famishing

FAM'ISHING, participle present tense Starving; killing; perishing by want of food.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Famishment

FAM'ISHMENT, noun The pain of extreme hunger or thirst; extreme want of sustenance.