This verb means to be a beggar, to live in poverty, or to become poor. It describes the condition of abject poverty where one must beg for sustenance. Paul uses this term in a stunning paradox to describe Christ's incarnation: though he was rich, yet for our sake he became poor. The multilingual glosses capture the economic reversal: Spanish 'se hizo pobre' (he became poor), French 'devenir pauvre' (to become poor), German 'arm werden' (to become poor), all emphasizing the voluntary descent from wealth to poverty for redemptive purposes.