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πένης

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Gloss: poor

Transliteration: penēs

Strong’s: G3993

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

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