A beggar
προσαίτηςStrong’s G6075prosaitēs
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Prosaitēs is the Greek word usually translated “beggar”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.”
Meaning
Usually translated “beggar”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- beggar 1
- a beggar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 1
- John 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
προσαίτης prosaitēs · a beggar
προσαίτης, -ου, ὁ, a beggar: Mrk.10:46, Jhn.9:8.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beggar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEG'GAR, noun
[See Beg.]
One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.
- One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.
- One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
All definitions and other forms of “beggar”
BEG'GAR, verb transitive
To reduce to beggary; to impoverish.
- To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.