noun · feminine
ptōcheias
Strong’sG4432
beggary, poverty
stem ptōchei-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 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.
πτωχεία, -ας, ἡ
(< πτωχεύω), [in LXX chiefly for עֳנִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4432 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpto-khi'-ah
beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G4433;
King Jamespoverty.
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
Ionic dialect πτωχ-ηΐη, ἡ, beggary, mendicity, ἐς πτωχηΐην ἀπῖκται Refs 5th c.BC+
II poor relief, Refs 4th c.AD+, τό, poorhouse, Refs 6th c.AD+; written πτωχῖον, Refs; Latin ptochium, Refs 4th 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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ptōcheias1×πτωχεία | ptōcheiais |
| object accusative | ptōcheian1×πτωχείαν | ptōcheiain |
| direct address vocative | ptōcheiar | ptōcheiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ptōcheiau | ptōcheiaiu |
| to, for dative | ptōcheia1×πτωχείᾳ | ptōcheiai |
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
ptōcheia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
ptōcheias“poverty”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 8:2… charau autoiu kai tas kata batheu ptōcheias autoiu perisseuata eis tem ploutem tau …… suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
ptōcheian“poverty”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 2:9Oidamē su tan thlipsian kai tan ptōcheian, alla plousios asō, kai tan blasfēmian …I know your affliction and your poverty — though you are rich! And I …
ptōcheia“poverty”to, fordative singular1×
2 Corinthians 8:9… plousios arōntos, hina vis ta ekeinou ptōcheia ploutaveia.… poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.