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πένης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένης πένητος

Structure: πενητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. one who works for his daily bread, a day-labourer, a poor man, (beggar)
  2. of a poor man, poor in

Declension

Third 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

  • ὁ ἀτιμάζων πένητασ ἁμαρτάνει, ἐλεῶν δὲ πτωχοὺσ μακαριστόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:21)
  • ἔκγονον κακὸν μαχαίρασ τοὺσ ὀδόντασ ἔχει καὶ τὰσ μύλασ τομίδασ, ὥστε ἀναλίσκειν καὶ κατεσθίειν τοὺσ ταπεινοὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ τοὺσ πένητασ αὐτῶν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων. ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν . Ταῦτα δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν τοῖσ σοφοῖσ ἐπιγινώσκειν. αἰδεῖσθαι πρόσωπον ἐν κρίσει οὐ καλόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:40)
  • ΑΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον, δαμάλεισ τῆσ Βασανίτιδοσ, αἱ ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῆσ Σαμαρείασ, αἱ καταδυναστεύουσαι πτωχοὺσ καὶ καταπατοῦσαι πένητασ, αἱ λέγουσαι τοῖσ κυρίοισ αὐτῶν. ἐπίδοτε ἡμῖν ὅπωσ πίωμεν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 4:1)
  • ὅτι ἔγνων πολλὰσ ἀσεβείασ ὑμῶν, καὶ ἰσχυραὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ὑμῶν, καταπατοῦντεσ δίκαιον, λαμβάνοντεσ ἀλλάγματα καὶ πένητασ ἐν πύλαισ ἐκκλίνοντεσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 5:12)
  • ὡσ εἴ γε τὸ κεκτῆσθαι τὰ βιβλία καὶ πεπαιδευμένον ἀπέφαινε τὸν ἔχοντα, πολλοῦ ἂν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τὸ κτῆμα ἦν ἄξιον καὶ μόνων ὑμῶν τῶν πλουσίων, εἰ ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀγορᾶσ ἦν πριάσθαι τοὺσ πένητασ ἡμᾶσ ὑπερβάλλοντασ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. one who works for his daily bread

    • χερνής (one who lives by his hands, a day-labourer, a poor man)
  2. of a poor man

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

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