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πενιχρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενιχρός πενιχρή πενιχρόν

Structure: πενιχρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like pe/nhs

Sense

  1. poor, needy

Examples

  • ἐὰν δὲ ἀργύριον ἐκδανείσῃσ τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷ πενιχρῷ παρὰ σοί, οὐκ ἔσῃ αὐτὸν κατεπείγων, οὐκ ἐπιθήσεισ αὐτῷ τόκον. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:25)
  • Τεθνάμεναι, φίλε Κύρνε, πενιχρῷ βέλτερον ἀνδρὶ ἢ ζώειν χαλεπῇ τειρόμενον πενίῃ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-138998)
  • ἐπιπμέπει ἀνδρὶ πενιχρῷ, ὄρνιθοσ κλαγγαῖσ νυκτὸσ ἀνεγρομένῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 428 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. poor

Related

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

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