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Strong's G3993 · Greek

πένης

penes · pen'-ace

from a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. indigent


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

πένης (G3993)

1 πένης , -ητος, ὁ ( πένομαι , to work for one's daily bread ), [in LXX for אֶבְיוֹן , עָנִי , דַּל , etc.;] one who works for his living , a labourer , a poor man : II Co 9:9 .† SYN. : πτωχός , properly a beggar and implying deeper poverty than π. (v. Tr., Syn. , § xxxvi; Abbott, Essays , 78).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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