adjective

penos

Greekπένης (penēs)

Strong’sG3993

poor

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

Translated as

poor1×

What it means

πένης, -ητος, ὁ

(< πένομαι, to work for one's daily bread), [in LXX for אֶבְיוֹן, עָנִי, דַּל, etc.;]

one who works for his living, a labourer, a poor man: II Co 9:9.†

SYN.: πτωχός, properly a beggar and implying deeper poverty than π. (v. Tr., Syn., § xxxvi; Abbott, Essays, 78).

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

Strong’s G3993 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpen'-ace

starving, i.e. indigent

Fromfrom a primary πένω (to toil for daily subsistence);

King Jamespoor.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	penos	penas	penem	penois	penais	peneim
object accusative	penon	penan		penoin	penain
direct address vocative	penor	penar		penoir	penair
of, belonging to genitive	penou	penau	peneu	penoiu	penaiu	peneiu
to, for dative	peno	pena	pene	penoi1×πένησιν	penai	penei

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

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

pen 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

penoi“poor”to, fordative plural1×

2 Corinthians 9:9“poor”kathōs grafitē; Skorpizata, dōata toi penoi, tas dikaiosunas autou menatō eis ton aiōnon;As it is written: “He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”