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Lexicon :: Strong's G4434 - ptōchos

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πτωχός
Transliteration
ptōchos (Key)
Pronunciation
pto-khos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From ptosso {to crouch, akin to πτοέω (G4422) and the alternate of πίπτω (G4098)}
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:885,969

Trench's Synonyms: xxxvi. πένης, πτωχός.

Strong’s Definitions

πτωχός ptōchós, pto-khos'; from πτώσσω ptṓssō (to crouch); akin to G4422 and the alternate of G4098); a beggar (as cringing), i.e. pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy, although also used in a qualified or relative sense; whereas G3993 properly means only straitened circumstances in private), literally (often as noun) or figuratively (distressed):—beggar(-ly), poor.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's G4434 in the following manner: poor (30x), beggar (2x), poor man (1x), beggarly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's G4434 in the following manner: poor (30x), beggar (2x), poor man (1x), beggarly (1x).

  1. reduced to beggary, begging, asking alms

  2. destitute of wealth, influence, position, honour

    1. lowly, afflicted, destitute of the Christian virtues and eternal riches

    2. helpless, powerless to accomplish an end

    3. poor, needy

  3. lacking in anything

    1. as respects their spirit

      1. destitute of wealth of learning and intellectual culture which the schools afford (men of this class most readily give themselves up to Christ's teaching and proved them selves fitted to lay hold of the heavenly treasure)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πτωχός ptōchós, pto-khos'; from πτώσσω ptṓssō (to crouch); akin to G4422 and the alternate of G4098); a beggar (as cringing), i.e. pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy, although also used in a qualified or relative sense; whereas G3993 properly means only straitened circumstances in private), literally (often as noun) or figuratively (distressed):—beggar(-ly), poor.
STRONGS G4434:
πτωχός, πτωχή, πτωχόν (πτώσσω, to be thoroughly frightened, to cower down or hide oneself for fear; hence, πτωχός properly, one who slinks and crouches), often involving the idea of roving about in wretchedness (see πένης, at the end; "but it always had a bad sense till it was ennobled in the Gospels; see Matthew 5:3; Luke 6:20, cf. 2 Corinthians 8:9" (Liddell and Scott, under I.)); hence,
1. in classical Greek from Homer down, reduced to beggary, begging, mendicant, asking alms: Luke 14:13, 21; Luke 16:20, 22.
2. poor, needy (opposed to πλούσιος): Matthew 19:21; Matthew 26:9, 11; Mark 10:21; Mark 12:42, 43; Mark 14:5, 7; Luke 18:22; Luke 19:8; Luke 21:3; John 12:5, 6, 8; John 13:29; Romans 15:26; 2 Corinthians 6:10; Galatians 2:10; James 2:2, 3, 6; Revelation 13:16; in a broader sense, destitute of wealth, influence, position, honors; lowly, afflicted: Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:18 (from Isaiah 61:1); Isa. 6:20; 7:22; οἱ πτωχοί τοῦ κόσμου (partitive genitive), the poor of the human race, James 2:5; but the more correct reading is that of L T Tr WH viz. τῷ κόσμῳ (unto the world), i. e. the ungodly world being judge, cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 4 a.; Buttmann, § 133, 14; (R. V. as to the world (see next head, and cf. κόσμος, 7)). tropically, destitute of the Christian virtues and the eternal riches, Revelation 3:17; like the Latininops, equivalent to helpless, powerless to accomplish an end: στοιχεῖα, Galatians 4:9 (`bringing no rich endowment of spiritual treasure' (Lightfoot)).
3. universally, lacking in anything, with a dative of the respect: τῷ πνεύματι, as respects their spirit, i. e. destitute of the wealth of learning and intellectual culture which the schools afford (men of this class most readily gave themselves up to Christ's teaching and proved themselves fitted to lay hold of the heavenly treasure, Matthew 11:25; John 9:39; 1 Corinthians 1:26, 27; (others make the idea more inward and ethical: 'conscious of their spiritual need')), Matthew 5:3; compare with this the Epistle of Barnabas 19 [ET], see ἔσῃ ἁπλοῦς τῇ καρδία καί πλούσιος τῷ πνεύματι, abounding in Christian graces and the riches of the divine kingdom. (The Sept. for עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, אֶבְיון, etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
7:22; 61:1
Matthew
5:3; 5:3; 11:5; 11:25; 19:21; 26:9; 26:11
Mark
10:21; 12:42; 12:43; 14:5; 14:7
Luke
4:18; 6:20; 14:13; 14:21; 16:20; 16:22; 18:22; 19:8; 21:3
John
9:39; 12:5; 12:6; 12:8; 13:29
Romans
15:26
1 Corinthians
1:26; 1:27
2 Corinthians
6:10; 8:9
Galatians
2:10; 4:9
James
2:2; 2:3; 2:5; 2:6
Revelation
3:17; 13:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4434 matches the Greek πτωχός (ptōchos),
which occurs 92 times in 88 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 23:11–Pro 14:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:15 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:8 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:28 - And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:12 - But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20 - And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:12 - Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:28 - So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:6 - He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:18 - For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 - The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:5 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:6 - Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:24 - For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:16 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:14 - The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:1 - [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:10 - Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:29 - But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:32 - The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:5 - But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:2 - He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:4 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:12 - For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:13 - He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:21 - O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:3 - Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:4 - Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 86:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:1 - [[A Prayer of David.]] Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:1 - [[A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.]] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:16 - Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:22 - For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:7 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:15 - I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:12 - I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:8 - The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:20 - The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:21 - He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

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