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Lexicon :: Strong's G3993 - penēs

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πένης
Transliteration
penēs (Key)
Pronunciation
pen'-ace
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:37,824

Trench's Synonyms: xxxvi. πένης, πτωχός.

Strong’s Definitions

πένης pénēs, pen'-ace; from a primary πένω pénō (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. indigent:—poor. Compare G4434.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3993 in the following manner: poor (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3993 in the following manner: poor (1x).
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πένης pénēs, pen'-ace; from a primary πένω pénō (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. indigent:—poor. Compare G4434.
STRONGS G3993:
πένης, πένητος, ὁ (πένομαι to work for one's living; the Latinpenuria and Greek πεινάω are akin to it (cf. Vanicek, p. 1164); hence, πένης equivalent to ἐκ πόνου καί ἐνεργείας τό ζῆν ἔχων, Etym. Magn.), poor: 2 Corinthians 9:9. (From Sophocles and Herodotus down; the Sept. for אֶבְיון, עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Corinthians
9:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3993 matches the Greek πένης (penēs),
which occurs 71 times in 69 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 2 (Pro 31:20–Zec 7:10)

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:20 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 - Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:14 - For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8 - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:8 - For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:13 - Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:16 - He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:49 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29 - The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27 - Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:1 - Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:4 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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