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ἐνδεής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνδεής ἐνδεές

Structure: ἐνδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)nde/w

Sense

  1. in need of
  2. in need, indigent
  3. lacking, deficient, in, lack, want, defect, deficiency
  4. inferior to, short of, unequal
  5. insufficient, defectively, insufficiently, insufficiently

Examples

  • καὶ ἐθεασάμην ὄψα πολλὰ καὶ εἶπα τῷ υἱῷ μου. βάδισον καὶ ἄγαγε ὃν ἂν εὕρῃσ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἡμῶν ἐνδεῆ, ὃσ μέμνηται τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ ἰδοὺ μένω σε. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 2:2)
  • μὴ ἀπόσχῃ εὖ ποιεῖν ἐνδεῆ, ἡνίκα ἂν ἔχῃ ἡ χείρ σου βοηθεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 3:27)
  • ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 7:7)
  • Λούκουλλοσ δὲ τρέπεται πρὸσ τὰσ ἐν Ἀσίᾳ πόλεισ, ὅπωσ, τῶν πολεμικῶν ἔργων σχολάζοντοσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ δίκησ τινὸσ μετάσχῃ καὶ θεσμῶν, ὧν ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἐνδεῆ τὴν ἐπαρχίαν οὖσαν ἄρρητοι καὶ ἄπιστοι δυστυχίαι κατεῖχον, ὑπὸ τῶν τελωνῶν καὶ τῶν δανειστῶν πορθουμένην καὶ ἀνδραποδιζομένην, πιπράσκειν ἰδίᾳ μὲν υἱοὺσ εὐπρεπεῖσ θυγατέρασ τε παρθένουσ, δημοσίᾳ δ’ ἀναθήματα, γραφάσ, ἱεροὺσ ἀνδριάντασ ἀναγκαζομένων. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 20 1:1)
  • πῶσ οὖν οὐχ ἅπαντ’ ἀνάγκη καταλυθῆναι τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὅταν αἱ μὲν τῶν τελῶν καταβολαὶ μὴ ὦσ’ ἱκαναὶ τῇ διοικήσει, ἀλλ’ ἐνδέῃ πολλῶν, καὶ μηδὲ ταῦτ’ ἀλλ’ ἢ περὶ λήγοντα τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ᾖ λαβεῖν, τὰ δὲ προσκαταβλήματα τοὺσ μὴ τιθέντασ μὴ ᾖ κυρία δεῖν ἡ βουλὴ μηδὲ τὰ δικαστήρια, ἀλλὰ καθιστῶσιν ἐγγυητὰσ ἄχρι τῆσ ἐνάτησ πρυτανείασ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 150:1)

Synonyms

  1. in need of

  2. lacking

  3. insufficient

Related

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

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