πτωχεία
poverty
‘poverty’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G4432 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“poverty” is the headline sense of the Greek noun πτωχεια (ptōcheía). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. Scripture first uses it in 2 Corinthians 8:2. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4432 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 67%
- Revelation 1 verse 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- Johannine 1 verse · 33%
- Revelation 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Poverty 2×
- American Standard Version: Poverty 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Poverty 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Poverty 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4432 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- beggary
- the condition of one destitute of riches and abundance
Word origin
Derived from πτωχευω (ptōcheúō) (G4433) — to beg.
From G4433 ; beggary that is indigence (literally or figuratively): - poverty.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4432 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πτωχεία ptōcheía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 8:2 | 1 |
| πτωχείαν ptōcheían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 2:9 | 1 |
| πτωχείᾳ ptōcheía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 8:9 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πτωχεια appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 6 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 8:9 πτωχεία
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 πτωχεία
- Job 30:27 πτωχεία
- Psalms 30:11 πτωχεία
- Isaiah 48:10 πτωχεία
- Lamentations 3:1 πτωχεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4432) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 8:9 πτωχεία a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 πτωχεία Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them.
- Job 30:27 πτωχεία My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
- Job 36:21 πτωχεία Take heed, don't regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.
- Psalms 30:11 πτωχεία You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
- Psalms 43:25 πτωχεία
- Psalms 87:10 πτωχεία
- Psalms 106:10 πτωχεία He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- Psalms 106:41 πτωχεία He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
- Isaiah 48:10 πτωχεία Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
- Lamentations 3:1 πτωχεία I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- Lamentations 3:19 πτωχεία Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4432) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
