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ἔνδεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνδεια

Structure: ἐνδει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)ndeh/s

Sense

  1. want, need, lack
  2. defect, deficiency
  3. want of means, need, poverty

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐξουσίαν δίδωσι λόγοισ ἀρχὴ δικαιοσύνησ, προηγεῖται δὲ τῆσ ἐνδείασ στάσισ καὶ μάχη. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 17:15)
  • Ἔστι κωλυόμενοσ ἁμαρτάνειν ἀπὸ ἐνδείασ, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀναπαύσει αὐτοῦ οὐ κατανυγήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 20:20)
  • καὶ ἐρεῖσ πρὸσ τὸν λαὸν τῆσ γῆσ. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ τοῖσ κατοικοῦσιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. τοὺσ ἄρτουσ αὐτῶν μετὰ ἐνδείασ φάγονται καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτῶν μετὰ ἀφανισμοῦ πίονται, ὅπωσ ἀφανισθῇ ἡ γῆ σὺν πληρώματι αὐτῆσ, ἐν ἀσεβείᾳ γὰρ πάντεσ οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ ἐν αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 12:19)
  • ἐγκρατείασ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι κατασχεῖν τῷ λογισμῷ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὁρμῶσαν ἐπὶ φαύλασ ἀπολαύσεισ καὶ ἡδονάσ, καὶ τὸ καρτερεῖν, καὶ τὸ ὑπομονητικὸν εἶναι τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν ἐνδείασ καὶ λύπησ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 21:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν τοίνυν αὐτῶν ὑπὸ ἐνδείασ ἴδοισ ἂν λεπτοὺσ καὶ ὠχρούσ, πεφρικότασ, ὥσπερ ἤδη τραυματίασ παρειμένουσ· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 40:5)

Synonyms

  1. want

  2. want of means

Related

Similar forms

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

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