◄ 3993. penés ►
Strong's Concordance penés: one who works for his living Original Word: πένης, ητος, ὁ Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: penés Phonetic Spelling: (pen'-ace) Short Definition: poor Definition: one who works for his living; a laborer, poor man. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3993: πένης πένης, πένητος, ὁ (πένομαι to work for one's living; the Latinpenuria 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 Exhaustive Concordance poor. From a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. Indigent -- poor. Compare ptochos. see GREEK ptochos Forms and Transliterations πένης πενησιν πένησιν πένητα πένητας πένητες πένητι πένητος πενήτων penesin penēsin pénesin pénēsin Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 3993 1 Occurrence πένησιν — 1 Occ. 2 Corinthians 9:9 N-DMP GRK: ἔδωκεν τοῖς πένησιν ἡ δικαιοσύνη NAS: ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS KJV: he hath given to the poor: his INT: he gave to the poor the righteousness 1 Occurrence