Greek noun (feminine) · G4432
πτωχεία
ptocheiapto-khi'-ah
poverty
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ptōcheía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4432is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4432
beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: poverty.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ptocheia is rendered "poverty". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 8:2In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
2 Corinthians 8:2πτωχεία
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- poverty2
- poverty —1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πτωχεία1
- πτωχείᾳ1
- πτωχείαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
2 Corinthians
two uses
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
- πτωχείαptocheianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: poverty
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
- πτωχείᾳptocheianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: poverty
Revelation
one use
I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
- πτωχείανptocheiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: poverty —
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.