2001 Translation

PENIA, penia

Sounds Like: peh-NEE-ah

Translations: poverty, a poverty, need, want

From the root: ΠΕΝΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the state of being poor or in need, indicating a lack of material possessions or resources. It describes a condition of destitution or indigence. It can be used in sentences to describe someone's economic status or the general state of hardship.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3993 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:130, 10:60

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 6:11, 10:4, 10:15, 24:34
• Sirach — 2:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 6 — 14:341
• Book 12 — 6:170
• Book 18 — 6:145, 7:242

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Psalms of Solomon — 4:7, 4:17, 16:13
• Proverbs — 6:11, 10:4, 10:15, 24:49

From the same root

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

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.

• ΠΕΝΙΑΝ — poverty, want, need, a poverty, a want, a need
• ΠΕΝΙΑΣ — of poverty, of want, of need, a poverty, a want, a need

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