adjective
penētos
Strong’sG3993
poor
stem penēt-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.
πένης, -ητος, ὁ
(< πένομαι, to work for one's daily bread), [in LXX for אֶבְיוֹן, עָנִי, דַּל, etc.;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πένομαι) one who works for his living, day-labourer, poor man, opposed to πλούσιος, Refs 3rd c.AD+; opposed to δυνάμενος, Refs 4th c.BC+; πτωχοῦ μὲν γὰρ βίος.., ζῆν ἐστιν μηδὲν ἔχοντα· τοῦ δὲ πένητος ζῆν φει- δόμενον καὶ τοῖς ἔργοις προσέχοντα Refs 5th c.BC+; οἷ᾽ ἀνὴρ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II as adjective, π. δόμοι Refs 5th c.BC+ poor in money,Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative πενέστερος Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative πενέστατος Refs 4th c.BC+
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.
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 | penētos | penētas | penētem | penētois | penētais | penēteim |
| object accusative | penēton | penētan | penētoin | penētain | ||
| direct address vocative | penētor | penētar | penētoir | penētair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | penētou | penētau | penēteu | penētoiu | penētaiu | penēteiu |
| to, for dative | penēto | penēta | penēte | penētoi1×πένησιν | penētai | penētei |
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
penēt 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
penētoi“poor”to, fordative plural1×
2 Corinthians 9:9kathōs grafotē; Skorpizata, dōata toi penētoi, tas dikaiosunas autou menatō eis ton …… scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”