poor 3998 # pentichros {pen-tikh-ros'}; prolongation from the base of 3993; necessitous: -- {poor}.[ql poor 3993 # penes {pen'-ace}; from a primary peno (to toil for daily subsistence); starving, i.e. indigent: -- {poor}. Compare 4434.[ql poor 4433 # ptocheuo {pto-khyoo'-o}; from 4434; to be a beggar, i.e. (by implication) to become indigent (figuratively): -- become {poor}.[ql poor 4434 # ptochos {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}.[ql ~~~~~~