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Lexicon :: Strong's G4432 - ptōcheia

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πτωχεία
Transliteration
ptōcheia (Key)
Pronunciation
pto-khi'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:885,969

Strong’s Definitions

πτωχεία ptōcheía, pto-khi'-ah; from G4433; beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively):—poverty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4432 in the following manner: poverty (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4432 in the following manner: poverty (3x).

  1. beggary

  2. in the NT poverty

    1. the condition of one destitute of riches and abundance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πτωχεία ptōcheía, pto-khi'-ah; from G4433; beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively):—poverty.
STRONGS G4432:
πτωχεία, πτωχείας, ἡ (πτωχεύω);
1. beggary (Herodotus 3, 14; Aristophanes, Plutarch, 549; Plato, legg. 11, p. 936{b}; Lysias p. 898, 9; Aristotle, poet. c. 23 p. 1459^b, 6).
2. in the N. T. poverty, the condition of one destitute of riches and abundance: opposed to πλουτεῖν, 2 Corinthians 8:9; opposed to πλούσιος, Revelation 2:9; ἡ κατά βάθους πτωχεία (opposed to πλοῦτος), deep, i. e. extreme poverty (see κατά, I. 1 b.), 2 Corinthians 8:2. (The Sept. chiefly for ענִי, affliction, misery.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Corinthians
8:2; 8:9
Revelation
2:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4432 matches the Greek πτωχεία (ptōcheia),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:14 - With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents[fn] of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:27 - My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;
days of affliction come to meet me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:21 - Take care; do not turn to iniquity,
for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:24 - Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O LORD;
I spread out my hands to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
prisoners in affliction and in irons,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 - but he raises up the needy out of affliction
and makes their families like flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:10 - Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tried[fn] you in the furnace of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:1 - I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of his wrath;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
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