Strong's #4434: ptochos (pronounced pto-khos')

from ptosso (to crouch); akin to 4422 and the alternate of 4098); a beggar (as cringing), i.e. pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy, although also used in a qualified or relative sense; whereas 3993 properly means only straitened circumstances in private), literally (often as noun) or figuratively (distressed):--beggar(-ly), poor.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ptōchos

1) reduced to beggary, begging, asking alms

2) destitute of wealth, influence, position, honour

2a) lowly, afflicted, destitute of the Christian virtues and eternal riches

2b) helpless, powerless to accomplish an end

2c) poor, needy

3) lacking in anything

3a) as respects their spirit

3a1) destitute of wealth of learning and intellectual culture which the schools afford (men of this class most readily give themselves up to Christ' s teaching and proved them selves fitted to lay hold of the heavenly treasure)

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from ptosso (to crouch, akin to G4422 and the alternate of G4098)

Citing in TDNT: 6:885, 969

Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

 

Matthew 5:3: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the"
Matthew 11:5: "the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
Matthew 19:21: "that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure"
Matthew 26:9: "for much, and given to the poor."
Matthew 26:11: "For ye have the poor always with you; but"
Mark 10:21: "and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in"
Mark 12:42: "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites,"
Mark 12:43: "unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all"
Mark 14:5: "and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her."
Mark 14:7: "For ye have the poor with you always, and"
Luke 4:18: "because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal"
Luke 6:20: "disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the"
Luke 7:22: "hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached."
Luke 14:13: "thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:"
Luke 14:21: "bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt,"
Luke 16:20: "And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid"
Luke 16:22: "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried"
Luke 18:22: "thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in"
Luke 19:8: "goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation,"
Luke 21:3: "unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:"
John 12:5: "pence, and given to the poor?"
John 12:6: "cared for the poor; but because he was a thief,"
John 12:8: "For the poor always ye have with you; but"
John 13:29: "he should give something to the poor."
Romans 15:26: "contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem."
2 Corinthians 6:10: "always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as"
Galatians 2:10: "they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also"
Galatians 4:9: "the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire"
James 2:2: "and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;"
James 2:3: "and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or"
James 2:5: "God chosen the poor of this world rich in"
James 2:6: "ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,"
Revelation 3:17: "and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:"
Revelation 13:16: "rich and poor, free and bond,"