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|txtha=πτωχή, πτωχόν ([[πτώσσω]], to be [[thoroughly]] [[frightened]], to [[cower]] [[down]] or [[hide]] [[oneself]] for [[fear]]; [[hence]], [[πτωχός]] [[properly]], [[one]] [[who]] slinks and crouches), [[often]] involving the [[idea]] of [[roving]] [[about]] in [[wretchedness]] ([[see]] [[πένης]], at the [[end]]; "[[but]] it [[always]] had a [[bad]] [[sense]] [[till]] it [[was]] ennobled in the Gospels; [[see]] Homer down, reduced to [[beggary]], [[begging]], [[mendicant]], [[asking]] [[alms]]: [[poor]], [[needy]] (opposed to [[πλούσιος]]): [[destitute]] of [[wealth]], [[influence]], [[position]], honors; [[lowly]], [[afflicted]]: οἱ πτωχοί [[τοῦ]] κόσμου (partitive genitive), the [[poor]] of the [[human]] [[race]], L T Tr WH viz. τῷ κόσμῳ ([[unto]] the [[world]]), i. e. the [[ungodly]] [[world]] [[being]] Judges, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 31,4a.; Buttmann, § 133,14; (R. V. as to the [[world]] ([[see]] [[next]] [[head]], and cf. [[κόσμος]], 7)). tropically, [[destitute]] of the Christian virtues and the [[eternal]] [[riches]], inops, equivalent to [[helpless]], [[powerless]] to [[accomplish]] an [[end]]: στοιχεῖα, Lightfoot)).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[universally]], [[lacking]] in [[anything]], [[with]] a dative of the [[respect]]: τῷ πνεύματι, as respects [[their]] [[spirit]], i. e. [[destitute]] of the [[wealth]] of [[learning]] and [[intellectual]] [[culture]] [[which]] the schools [[afford]] (men of [[this]] class [[most]] [[readily]] gave [[themselves]] up to Christ's [[teaching]] and proved [[themselves]] fitted to [[lay]] [[hold]] of the [[heavenly]] [[treasure]], [[ἔσῃ]] [[ἁπλοῦς]] τῇ [[καρδία]] καί [[πλούσιος]] τῷ πνεύματι, abounding in Christian graces and the [[riches]] of the [[divine]] [[kingdom]]. (The Sept. for עָנִי, דַּל, רָשׁ, אֶבְיון, etc.)