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)
Definition: one who works for his living
Usage: one who works for his living; a laborer, poor man.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from penomai (to work for one's daily bread)
Definition
one who works for his living
NASB Translation
poor (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3993: πένης

πένης, πένητος, (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
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Englishman's Concordance
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

Strong's Greek 3993
1 Occurrence


πένησιν — 1 Occ.









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