πενία
poverty
Where this word appears
Every passage where πενία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 36:8 πενία But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
- Proverbs 6:11 πενία Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
- Proverbs 10:4 πενία Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.
- Proverbs 10:15 πενία The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.
- Proverbs 13:18 πενία Instruction removes poverty and disgrace: but he that attends to reproofs shall be honored.
- Proverbs 24:34 πενία But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.
- Proverbs 28:19 πενία He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.
- Proverbs 30:8 πενία Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:
- Proverbs 31:7 πενία that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.
About this word
About this word
πενία (penía), “poverty,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
