limos denotes food scarcity, whether a famine affecting a land or hunger suffered by a person.

The dominant attested use denotes famine or food scarcity affecting a land, region, or the wider world; in a smaller set of contexts it describes hunger endured by an individual or named among afflictions.

1. Famine affecting a land or population · dominant

   In Acts 7:11 the nominative singular form is the event that comes over Egypt and Canaan, where the fathers cannot find food. The APB likewise renders a great scarcity coming upon the land in Luke 4:25, lists plural occurrences among earthquakes in Matthew 24:7 and Mark 13:8, and describes a coming worldwide crisis in Acts 11:28.

   Acts 7:11Luke 4:25Acts 11:28Matthew 24:7Mark 13:8Luke 21:11
2. Hunger or deprivation endured personally · occasional

   In Luke 15:17 the dative singular form occurs in the speaker's statement that he is perishing while his father's workers have bread to spare. In 2 Corinthians 11:27 it stands in a list with thirst, fastings, cold, and nakedness; Revelation 18:8 also places it with death and grief in the announced plagues.

   Luke 15:172 Corinthians 11:27Revelation 18:8Romans 8:35

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “famine” where scarcity comes upon lands or is listed among disasters, while it uses “hunger” in personal-deprivation contexts such as Luke 15:17 and Revelation 18:8. These renderings confirm the verse contexts rather than establish separate English equivalents in every instance.