beggar

One who is poor and needy, who begs for food or asks for alms. Frequently the beggar was lame (Acts 3:10), blind (Mark 10:46-52; John 9), or afflicted with sores (Luke 16:19-20). One parable of Jesus concerns the beggar Lazarus, who, upon death, was received into the bosom of Abraham in contrast to a rich man who went to the torments of Hades (Luke 16:19-30). In (Mark 10:46-52) the blind beggar whose sight is restored by Jesus outside Jericho is identified as Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus.