Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Poor (penixran). A rare word from penhv (penomai, to work for one's living). Latin penuria and Greek peinaw, to be hungry are kin to it. Here only in the N.T. Mark 12:42 has ptwxh, a more common word from ptwssw, to be frightened, to strike and hide from fear, to be in beggary. And Luke uses this adjective also of her in verse Luke 21:3.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 21:2:
Matthew 6:2
Luke 12:59
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