adjective
penichras
Strong’sG3998
poor, needy
stem penichr-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.
πενιχρός, -ά, -όν
(< πένομαι, v.s. πένης), [in LXX: Ex 22:25 (עָנִי), Pr 28:15 29:7 (דַּל)*;] chiefly in Comic poets and late prose (but Plato, Rep., 578 A), = πένης,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3998 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpen-tikh-ros'
necessitous
Fromprolongation from the base of G3993;
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
poor, needy, Refs 8th c.BC+—poetical word, found in Comedy texts, as Refs 6th c.BC+, and in later Prose, as LXX+5th c.BC+: comparative πενιχρότερος Refs 1st c.AD+, superlative -ότατοςRefs 2nd c.BC+. adverb -χρῶςRefs 4th c.BC+.by nature, Refs 8th 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 | penichros | penichras | penichrem | penichrois | penichrais | penichreim |
| object accusative | penichron | penichran1×πενιχρὰν | penichroin | penichrain | ||
| direct address vocative | penichror | penichrar | penichroir | penichrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | penichrou | penichrau | penichreu | penichroiu | penichraiu | penichreiu |
| to, for dative | penichro | penichra | penichre | penichroi | penichrai | penichrei |
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
penichr 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
penichran“poor”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 21:2horata de tinan chēran penichran balarōntan ekei lepteim duo,and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper …