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πένομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένομαι

Structure: πέν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to work for one's daily bread, to toil, work, labour
  2. to be poor or needy
  3. to be poor in, have need of
  4. to work at, prepare, get ready

Examples

  • ὁ πλουτῶν οὐ προσθήσει καὶ ὁ πενόμενοσ οὐκ ἐλαττονήσει ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡμίσουσ τοῦ διδράχμου ἐν τῷ διδόναι τὴν εἰσφορὰν Κυρίῳ ἐξιλάσασθαι περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:15)
  • οὐδ’ ἡντιναοῦν ἀλλὰ πενόμενοσ ἐγὼ καὶ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπορούμενοσ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν διδασκάλων ἐλεούμενοσ ἐπαιδευόμην, καί μοι τοιαῦτα παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἦν πρὸσ τὸ μαθεῖν ἐφόδια, λύπη καὶ ἐρημία καὶ ἀπορία καὶ μῖσοσ οἰκείων καὶ ἀποστροφὴ συγγενῶν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 24:6)
  • προσέτι γὰρ καὶ ζηλότυπόσ ἐστιν, ὃσ καὶ πενόμενοσ ἔτι πολὺ ἀφόρητοσ ἦν· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:3)
  • οὗτοσ δὲ ἢ λαθὼν ἢ παραμεληθεὶσ ἔν τινι βαρβάρῳ κώμῃ πενόμενοσ καὶ μισούμενοσ κατεγήρασεν. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 27 4:3)
  • διὸ κάμνοντεσ, πενόμενοι, <πολεμοῦντεσ,> ἐρῶντεσ, διψῶντεσ, ὅλωσ ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ καὶ μὴ κατορθοῦντεσ ὀργίλοι εἰσὶ καὶ εὐπαρόρμητοι, μάλιστα μὲν πρὸσ τοὺσ τοῦ παρόντοσ ὀλιγωροῦντασ, οἱο͂ν κάμνων μὲν τοῖσ πρὸσ τὴν νόσον, πενόμενοσ δὲ τοῖσ πρὸσ τὴν πενίαν, πολεμῶν δὲ τοῖσ πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον, ἐρῶν δὲ τοῖσ πρὸσ τὸν ἔρωτα, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ <εἰ δὲ μή, κἂν ὁτιοῦν ἄλλο ὀλιγωρῇ τισ>· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 2 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. to work for one's daily bread

  2. to be poor or needy

  3. to be poor in

  4. to work at

Derived

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

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