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ἄγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγονος ἄγονη ἄγονον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + γον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. unborn, not yet born
  2. not producing, unfruitful, barren, without issue, bringing no children to the birth
  3. not productive of, barren in
  4. childless

Examples

  • οὐκ ἔσται ἄγονοσ οὐδὲ στείρα ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ σου. τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν σου ἀναπληρῶν ἀναπληρώσω. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:26)
  • εὐλογητόσ ἔσῃ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. οὐκ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἄγονοσ οὐδὲ στεῖρα καὶ ἐν τοῖσ κτήνεσί σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 7:14)
  • ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονοσ. οἱ φεύγοντεσ ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲσ συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 30:3)
  • γῆ τε γὰρ ἄνευ θερμῆσ οὐσίασ ἄγονοσ καὶ ἄκαρποσ· (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 8 3:2)
  • ἀτὰρ εἰπέ μοι, ‐ ὑπέμνησε γάρ με τὰ τῆσ Μηδείασ ἰαμβεῖα ‐ καὶ ἔτεκέσ ποτε, ὁπότε γυνὴ ἦσθα, ἢ στεῖρα καὶ ἄγονοσ διετέλεσασ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ βίῳ; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. not productive of

  2. childless

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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