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πτωχεύω

ptōcheúō · G4433 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to become poor

    To change to a state of poverty

    Examples

    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 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Contrasting words 1 word
πλουτέω ploutéō · G4147 · to be rich, to be wealthy, well-todo
Direct lexical opposite: πλουτέω means to be or become rich/wealthy, the precise contrary state to becoming poor/indigent.
In the other Testament 1 word
רוּשׁ rûwsh · H7326 · to suffer want, poor, destitute
Standard Hebrew verb for becoming poor or impoverished; direct translation equivalent for the Greek concept of becoming indigent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To become poor57.54
The verb describes becoming poor. Paul writes of Christ, “that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9).
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×πτωχεία ptōcheía · G4432 · poverty, destitution · 3×πτωχεύωptōcheúō · G4433
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐπτώχευσα; (πτωχός, which see); properly, to be a beggar, to beg; so in…
: 1 aorist ἐπτώχευσα; (πτωχός, which see); properly, to be a beggar, to beg; so in classical Greek from Homer down; in the N. T. once, to be poor: 2 Cor 8:9, on which see πλούσιος, b. at the end (Tobit 4:21; the Sept. for דָּלַל to be weak, afflicted, Judg 6:6; Ps 78:8 (; for נורַשׁ to be reduced to want, Prov 23:21; רוּשׁ to be needy, Ps 33:11.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Be Poor, Be Needy, Poverty1 occurrence

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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