ΠΤΩΧΙΖΟΝΤΑ, πτωχιζοντα
PTŌCHIZONTA, ptōchizonta
Sounds Like: ptoh-KHEE-zon-tah
Translations: making poor, impoverishing, becoming poor, being impoverished
From the root: ΠΤΩΧΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle of the verb 'πτωχίζω', which means 'to make poor' or 'to impoverish'. It describes an action of causing someone or something to become poor, or in some contexts, to become poor oneself. It can be used to describe a person or thing that is in the process of making someone else poor, or being made poor.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4435 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 59:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΩΧΙΖΩ.
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.
- ΠΤΩΧΙΖΕΙ — makes poor, impoverishes, reduces to poverty
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