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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 where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; 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 - “Now behold, [fn]with great pains I have prepared for the house of Yahweh 100,000 [fn]talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weight, for [fn]they are in great quantity; also timber and stone I have prepared, and you may add to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:27 -

“[fn]I am boiling within and cannot be silent;

Days of affliction confront me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:21 -

“Be careful, do not turn to wickedness,

For you have chosen this to affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 -

For my life is worn down 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

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 -

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my [fn]hands to You.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 -

There were those who inhabited darkness and the shadow of death,

Prisoners in affliction and irons,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 -

But He sets the needy [fn]securely on high away from affliction,

And makes his families like a flock.

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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 tested you in the furnace of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:1 -

Aleph

I am the man who has seen affliction

Because of the rod of His wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:19

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Zayin

Remember my affliction and my [fn]homelessness, the wormwood and gall.

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