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κενός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κενός κενή κενόν

Structure: κεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. empty
  2. vain, fruitless
  3. exhausted, void, destitute

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ δώσω χάριν τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ ἐναντίον τῶν Αἰγυπτίων. ὅταν δὲ ἀποτρέχητε, οὐκ ἀπελεύσεσθε κενοί. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 3:21)
  • καὶ ἔφυγεν Ἰεφθάε ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν γῇ Τώβ, καὶ συνεστράφησαν πρὸσ Ἰεφθάε ἄνδρεσ κενοὶ καὶ ἐξῆλθον μετ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 11:3)
  • ὦ κενοὶ βροτῶν, καὶ πρὸσ δίκησ γε πολλὰ πάσχοντεσ κακά, φίλοισ μὲν οὐ πείθεσθε, τοῖσ δὲ πράγμασιν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:9)
  • κενοὶ γὰρ οὗτοι τῶν τ’ ἀκουόντων λόγοι καὶ τοῦ λέγοντοσ, ὅστισ ἐν μάχῃ βεβὼσ λόγχησ ἰούσησ πρόσθεν ὀμμάτων πυκνῆσ σαφῶσ ἀπήγγειλ’ ὅστισ ἐστὶν ἁγαθόσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode8)
  • ἀρεταὶ δὲ πρεσβεῖαί τε καὶ στρατηγίαι κόμποι κενοὶ ψοφοῦσιν ἀντ’ ὀνειράτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 15 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. empty

  2. vain

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