Word

πτωχεία

ptōcheía · G4432 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

poverty, destitution

A state of having insufficient possessions

Examples
2 Corinthians 8:2 that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 1
σύyou 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

περισσεύωto abound, to be left over 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἴδωto know 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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In the other Testament 1 word

עֳנִי ʻŏnîy · H6040 · affliction, misery, suffering: Hebrew עֳנִי (affliction, trouble) serves as the Hebrew equivalent of Greek πτωχεία (beggary, indigence), both denoting conditions of material deprivation and distress, with the Hebrew term encompassing a broader semantic range that includes affliction generally while the Greek term specifically focuses on poverty and destitution.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Poverty, destitution57.52: The noun denotes a state of extreme poverty. Paul describes the Macedonian churches: “in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality” (2 Corinthians 8:2).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πτωχός ptōchós · G4434 · poor, destitute, of little or no value · 34×πτωχείαptōcheía · G4432πτωχεύω ptōcheúō · G4433 · to become poor · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πτωχείας, ἡ (πτωχεύω); 1. beggary (Herodotus 3, 14; Aristophanes, Plutarch, 549; Plato,…

πτωχείας, ἡ (πτωχεύω);
1. beggary (Herodotus 3, 14; Aristophanes, Plutarch, 549; Plato, legg. 11, p. 936{b}; Lysias p. 898, 9; Aristotle, poet. c. 23 p. 1459^b, 6).
2. in the N. T. poverty, the condition of one destitute of riches and abundance: opposed to πλουτεῖν, 2 Cor 8:9; opposed to πλούσιος, Rev 2:9; ἡ κατά βάθους πτωχεία (opposed to πλοῦτος), deep, i. e. extreme poverty (see κατά, I. 1 b.), 2 Cor 8:2. (The Sept. chiefly for ענִי, affliction, misery.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Be Poor, Be Needy, Poverty3 occurrences

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