ΠΤΩΧΩ, πτωχω
PTŌCHŌ, ptōchō
Sounds Like: PTO-kho
Translations: to the poor, to a poor person, to the beggar, to a beggar
From the root: ΠΤΩΧΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes someone who is poor, destitute, or a beggar. It is often used as an adjective to describe a person's economic status, but it can also function as a noun, referring to 'a poor person' or 'a beggar'. In this form, it is in the dative case, indicating the recipient of an action or the person to whom something is directed.
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G4434 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 38:2
Codex Sinaiticus
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 124:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 19:10, 23:22
- Psalms — 67:11, 101:1
- Proverbs — 22:9, 29:7, 29:38
- Sirach — 4:8, 7:32
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:27
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- James — 2:3
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
- 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
- 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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