Lexicon penés: one who works for his living Original Word: πένης, ητος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: penés Phonetic Spelling: (pen'-ace) Short Definition: poor Definition: one who works for his living; a laborer, poor man. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom penomai (to work for one's daily bread) Definitionone who works for his living NASB Translationpoor (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3993: πένηςπένης, πένητος, ὁ ( πένομαι to work for one's living; the Latin penuria and Greek πεινάω are akin to it (cf. Vanicek, p. 1164); hence, πένης equivalent to ἐκ πόνου καί ἐνεργείας τό ζῆν ἔχων, Etym. Magn.), poor: 2 Corinthians 9:9. (From Sophocles and Herodotus down; the Sept. for אֶבְיון, עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, etc.) [SYNONYMS: πένης, πτωχός: "πένης occurs but once in the N. T., and then in a quotation from the O. T., while πτωχός occurs between thirty and forty times .... The πένης may be so poor that he earns his bread by daily labor; the πτωχός that he only obtains his living by begging." Trench, § xxxvi.; cf. Schmidt, chapter 85, 4; chapter 186.]
Strong's poor. From a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. Indigent -- poor. Compare ptochos. see GREEK ptochos |
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