“akin to G4422 (πτοέω) and the alternate of G4098 (πίπτω)); a beggar (as cringing), i.e. pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy, although also used in a qualified or relative sense; whereas G3993 (πένης) properly means only straitened circumstances in private), literally (often as noun) or figuratively (distressed)”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
akin to G4422 (πτοέω) and the alternate of G4098 (πίπτω)); a beggar (as cringing), i.e. pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy, although also used in a qualified or relative sense; whereas G3993 (πένης) properly means only straitened circumstances in private), literally (often as noun) or figuratively (distressed)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
reduced to beggary, mendicant; poor, indigent, Mt. 19:21; 26:9, 11; met. spiritually poor, Rev. 3:17; by impl. a person of low condition, Mt. 11:4; Lk. 4:18; 7:22; met. beggarly, sorry, Gal. 4:9; met. lowly, Mt. 5:3; Lk. 6:20
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
from (to crouch);
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