ΠΤΩΧΟΙΣ, πτωχοις
PTŌCHOIS, ptōchois
Sounds Like: PTOH-khoys
Translations: to the poor, for the poor, poor people, beggars
From the root: ΠΤΩΧΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to those who are poor, destitute, or beggars. It is often used to describe individuals or groups who are economically disadvantaged and dependent on others for support. In a spiritual sense, it can also refer to those who are humble and recognize their need for God.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4434 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Esther — 9:22
- Matthew — 19:21, 26:9
- Mark — 10:21, 14:5
- Luke — 4:18, 18:22, 19:8
- John — 12:5, 13:29
- Epistle of Barnabas — 14:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 13:4
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
- ΠΤΩΧΑ — poor, beggarly, destitute, impoverished, a poor thing, poor things
- 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
- 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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