ἐνδεής
endeḗs · G1729 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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poor, needy
Pertaining to lacking what is needed or necessary for existence
ExamplesActs 4:34 For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- πένης pénēs · G3993 · poor, needy
- Greek adjective denoting one who is poor or has to work for a living, overlapping with ἐνδεής in describing material deficiency, though πένης emphasizes labor/poverty while ἐνδεής emphasizes the state of lacking
- πτωχός ptōchós · G4434 · poor, destitute, of little or no value
- Greek adjective meaning 'poor' or 'destitute,' frequently used for those lacking material resources, closely related to the sense of ἐνδεής as deficient, though πτωχός often emphasizes extreme poverty or begging
Contrasting words 1 word
- πλούσιος ploúsios · G4145 · rich, wealthy, well-to-do
- Greek adjective meaning 'rich' or 'wealthy,' the natural lexical opposite of ἐνδεής (deficient/lacking); where ἐνδεής denotes deficiency in resources, πλούσιος denotes abundance
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָסֵר châçêr · H2638 · lacking, short of
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'lacking' or 'deficient,' the standard translation equivalent for ἐνδεής in its sense of being in want or lacking something necessary
- אֶבְיוֹן ʼebyôwn · H34 · poor, needy
- Hebrew noun for 'needy' or 'poor person,' frequently used in contexts describing those who lack resources, matching the semantic domain of ἐνδεής as one who is deficient in material necessities
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Poor, needy57.51
- This adjective describes someone lacking material necessities, used of the description of the early Jerusalem church's shared possessions ensuring no one went without — "For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales" (Acts 4:34).
Word family 42 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐνδης (from ἐνδέω to lack, middle to be in need of), needy, destitute: Acts 4:34. (From…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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