πένης: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πένητος, ὁ ([[πένομαι]] to [[work]] for [[one]]'s [[living]]; the Latin penuria 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]]: [[Sophocles]] and [[Herodotus]] down; the Sept. for אֶבְיון, עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, etc.) [ SYNONYMS: [[πένης]], [[πτωχός]]: "[[πένης]] occurs [[but]] [[once]] in the N. T., and [[then]] in a [[quotation]] from the O. T., [[while]] [[πτωχός]] occurs [[between]] [[thirty]] and [[forty]] times .... The [[πένης]] [[may]] be so [[poor]] [[that]] he earns his [[bread]] by [[daily]] labor; the [[πτωχός]] [[that]] he [[only]] obtains his [[living]] by [[begging]]." Trench, § xxxvi.; cf. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 85,4; [[chapter]] 186.]