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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

  • οὐ γὰρ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ ἐνδεὴσ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ σου. διὰ τοῦτο ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι ποιεῖν τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο λέγων. ἀνοίγων ἀνοίξεισ τὰσ χεῖράσ σου τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου τῷ πένητι καὶ τῷ ἐπιδεομένῳ τῷ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:11)
  • καὶ τῷ πένητι οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ ἀμνὰσ μία μικρά, ἣν ἐκτήσατο καὶ περιεποίησατο καὶ ἐξέθρεψεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἡδρύνθη μετ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, ἐκ τοῦ ἄρτου αὐτοῦ ἤσθιε καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου αὐτοῦ ἔπινε καὶ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ αὐτοῦ ἐκάθευδε καὶ ἦν αὐτῷ ὡσ θυγάτηρ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 12:3)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο Κύριοσ καταφυγὴ τῷ πένητι, βοηθὸσ ἐν εὐκαιρίαισ ἐν θλίψεσι. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 9:10)
  • καὶ ἐβοήθησε πένητι ἐκ πτωχείασ καὶ ἔθετο ὡσ πρόβατα πατριάσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 106:41)
  • χεῖρασ δὲ αὐτῆσ διήνοιξε πένητι, καρπὸν δὲ ἐξέτεινε πτωχῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 29:37)

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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