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πενία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενία

Structure: πενι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. poverty, need

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πενία πενίᾱ πενίαι
Genitive πενίᾱς πενίαιν πενιῶν
Dative πενίᾱͅ πενίαιν πενίαις
Accusative πενίᾱν πενίᾱ πενίᾱς
Vocative πενίᾱ πενίᾱ πενίαι

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 οἱ πεπεδημένοι ἐν χειροπέδαισ συσχεθήσονται ἐν σχοινίοισ πενίασ, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 36:8)
  • ἵνα ἐπιλάθωνται τῆσ πενίασ καὶ τῶν πόνων μὴ μνησθῶσιν ἔτι. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:75)
  • ὁ ἐργαζόμενοσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γῆν πλησθήσεται ἄρτων, ὁ δὲ διώκων σχολὴν πλησθήσεται πενίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 28:20)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλ’ ὠμούσ τινασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐπιτρίψοντάσ σε, ἢν οἱ θεοὶ ἐθέλωσι, καὶ πρὸσ ἔσχατον πενίασ συνελάσοντασ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 24:3)
  • οὗτοι δὲ οὐδὲν Ἀττικῆσ πενίασ δέονται, ἀλλ’ ἔνθα πολὺσ χρυσὸσ ἢ ἄργυροσ ὀρύττεται, ἐκεῖ που ζητητέοι εἰσὶν ἡμῖν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 24:6)

Synonyms

  1. poverty

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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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