Lexical Summary penēs: one who works for his living Original Word: πένηςTransliteration: penēs Phonetic Spelling: (pen'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: one who works for his living Meaning: one who works for his living Strong's Concordance poor. From a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. Indigent -- poor. Compare ptochos. see GREEK ptochos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3993: πένηςπένης, πένητος, ὁ (πένομαι to work for one's living; the Latinpenuria and Greek πεινάω are akin to it (cf. Vanicek, p. 1164); hence, πένης equivalent to ἐκ πόνου καί ἐνεργείας τό ζῆν ἔχων, Etym. Magn.), poor: 2 Corinthians 9:9. (From Sophocles and Herodotus down; the Sept. for אֶבְיון, עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, etc.) |
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