Lexicon / G3993
πένης
penēs
  • poor
  • one who works for his living
  • a labourer
  • a poor man

STEPBible TBESG

Glosses: poor

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: 2Co.9:9.†

SYN.: πτωχός, properly a beggar and implying deeper poverty than π. (see Tr. Syn. § xxxvi, Abbott, Essays, 78) (AS)

Abbott-Smith

Glosses: one who works for his living; a labourer; a poor man

one who works for his living; a labourer; a poor man