2001 Translation

PENĒTI, penēti

Sounds Like: peh-NAY-tee

Translations: (to) a poor person, (to) a poor man, (to) a beggar

From the root: ΠΕΝΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a poor person, someone who is in need or destitute. It is used in the dative case, indicating the recipient of an action or the person to whom something is given or done. For example, it might be used in a sentence like 'He gave to the poor person' or 'He showed kindness to the poor man'.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3993 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 9:10, 106:41
• Proverbs — 31:20

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 7:148

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 15:11
• 2 Samuel — 12:3
• Psalms — 9:10, 106:41
• Proverbs — 29:38

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 2 — 1:5, 1:7

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΝΗΣ.

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.

• ΠΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΙ — poorer, more poor, a poorer person, a more poor person
• ΠΕΝΗΘ — poor, needy, a poor person, a needy person
• ΠΕΝΗΘΕΙΣ — poor, needy, impoverished, a poor person, a needy person
• ΠΕΝΗΣ — poor, a poor man, needy, a needy person
• ΠΕΝΗΣΙ — to the poor, for the poor, to the needy, for the needy
• ΠΕΝΗΣΙΝ — to the poor, to the needy, to the destitute
• ΠΕΝΗΤΑ — poor person, a poor person, the poor
• ΠΕΝΗΤΑΙ — is poor, becomes poor, is in need
• ΠΕΝΗΤΑΣ — poor person, a poor person, beggar, a beggar, (of) a poor person, (to) a poor person, poor people, (of) poor people, (to) poor people
• ΠΕΝΗΤΕΣ — poor people, the poor, beggars
• ΠΕΝΗΤΟΣ — of a poor person, of the poor, of the needy
• ΠΕΝΗΤΩ — of the poor, of the needy, of the destitute
• ΠΕΝΗΤΩΝ — of the poor, of poor people
• ΠΙΝΗΣ — poor man, a poor man, pauper, a pauper

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