ΠΤΩΧΑ, πτωχα
PTŌCHA, ptōcha
Sounds Like: PTO-kha
Translations: poor, beggarly, destitute, impoverished, a poor thing, poor things
From the root: ΠΤΩΧΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as poor, beggarly, or destitute. It can refer to material poverty, but also to spiritual or moral destitution, or a state of being weak and without influence. In the provided context, "πτωχὰ στοιχεῖα" refers to "beggarly elements," implying something weak, powerless, or of no value.
Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4434 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 5:10
Codex Sinaiticus
- Galatians — 4:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Galatians — 4:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΩΧΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΡΩΧΟΝ — poor, a poor person, a beggar, a pauper
- ΠΤΩΧΕΙΑ — poverty, destitution, beggary, a poverty
- ΠΤΩΧΗ — poor, a poor woman, beggarly
- ΠΤΩΧΘΙΣ — Unknown, possibly related to poverty or begging
- ΠΤΩΧΟ — poor, a poor person, a beggar, a pauper, of the poor, of a poor person, of a beggar, of a pauper, to the poor, to a poor person, to a beggar, to a pauper
- ΠΤΩΧΟΙ — poor, a poor person, beggars, the poor
- ΠΤΩΧΟΙΣ — to the poor, for the poor, poor people, beggars
- ΠΤΩΧΟΝ — poor, a poor person, beggar, a beggar, destitute, needy
- ΠΤΩΧΟΣ — poor, a poor person, beggar, a beggar, destitute, needy
- ΠΤΩΧΟΤΗΤΑ — poverty, destitution, beggary, a poverty
- ΠΤΩΧΟΥ — of a poor person, of a beggar, of the poor
- ΠΤΩΧΟΥΣ — poor, the poor, a poor person
- ΠΤΩΧΩ — to the poor, to a poor person, to the beggar, to a beggar
- ΠΤΩΧΩΝ — of the poor, of beggars, of the destitute
- ΩΧΟΥ — of a poor person, of a beggar, of a pauper, of a poor man, of a poor woman, of a poor one, of the poor
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