Words the Bible translates as poor
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ptōchosπτωχόςthe destitute poor: a person who has nothing and must depend on others to survive
- penēsπένηςpoornot studied yet
- aniעָנִיafflicted and lowly: a person bowed down by hardship, poverty, or oppression, and so dependent on God for help
- evyonאֶבְיוֹןdestitute: someone with nothing, so poor they depend on others or on God to survive
- dalדַּלlow, weak, of little account: a person or group reduced in body, standing, or means, and so easily pushed aside
- rushרוּשׁto be poor, to lack property: the condition of having little or nothing, set plainly against being rich
- anavעָנָוthe lowly: one bowed down, by hardship or by a settled inner posture, who looks to God for help instead of asserting himself
- dallahדַּלָּהthe poorest of a land: the lowest and least powerful layer of a population, and more broadly what is reduced and thin
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- hanging strands: the loose hair falling from a head, or the threads left dangling on a weaver's loom
- mukhמוּךְto sink into poverty: to fall from having enough to live on into not having enough.
- penichrosπενιχρόςpoornot studied yet
- miskenמִסְכֵּןpoornot studied yet
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