endeos

Strong’sG1729

in need, needy

stem ende-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἐνδεής, -ές

(< ἐνδέω, to lack) [in LXX for חָסֵר, אֶבְיוֹן, etc.;]

in want, needy: Ac 4:34,†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1729 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiden-deh-ace'

deficient in

Fromfrom a compound of G1722 and G1210 (in the sense of lacking);

King Jameslacking.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐνδε-ής, ές,
neuter plural ἐνδεᾶ: (ἐνδέω B):— wanting or lacking in, in need of, with genitive, ἐ. εἶναι or γεγενῆσθαί τινος, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλῶν ἐ., opposed to αὐτάρκης, Refs 5th c.BC+; ποιητοῦ δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐ... πρὸς τὸ ἐπιδεῖξαι, caret vate sacro, Refs
2 absolutely, in want, in need, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b lacking, deficient, frequently in comparative, ἐνδεέστερα πράγματα Refs 5th c.BC+; φαίνεται ἐνδεεστέρα [ἡ στρατεία] Refs 5th c.BC+; also in Posit., οὐδὲν ἐνδεὲς ποιεῖσθαι leave nothing unsaid, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἐ. lack, want, defect, ={ἔνδεια}, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ αὐτῶν ἐ. their deficiency, Refs
3 inferior, τὰ κρείσσω μηδὲ τἀνδεᾶ λέγειν the worse, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς δυνάμεως ἐνδεᾶ πρᾶξαι to act short of your real power, Refs 5th c.BC+; τούτου ἐνδεᾶ ἐφαίνετο (i.e. τἃ πράγματα) their power was unequal to the purpose, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 inadequate, insufficient, πρός τι Refs 5th c.BC+
5 Grammars, defective, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 adverb ἐνδεῶς defectively, insufficiently, opposed to ἱκανῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. ἔχειν τινός to be in want of, Refs 5th c.BC+; μὴ ἐνδεῶς γνῶναι judge not insufficiently, Refs 5th c.BC+ less than, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. ἢ προσῆκεν τιμωρήσασθαι Epist. Philipp. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+: rarely -έστερον Refs 2nd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

needy1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	endeos1×ἐνδεής	endeas	endeem	endeois	endeais	endeeim
object accusative	endeon	endean		endeoin	endeain
direct address vocative	endeor	endear		endeoir	endeair
of, belonging to genitive	endeou	endeau	endeeu	endeoiu	endeaiu	endeeiu
to, for dative	endeo	endea	endee	endeoi	endeai	endeei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

endestem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ende is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

endeos“needy”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 4:34oude gar endeos tinos ate en autoi; hosois gar …There were no needy ones among them, because those who …