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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

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular πένομαι πένει, πένῃ πένεται
Dual πένεσθον πένεσθον
Plural πενόμεθα πένεσθε πένονται
SubjunctiveSingular πένωμαι πένῃ πένηται
Dual πένησθον πένησθον
Plural πενώμεθα πένησθε πένωνται
OptativeSingular πενοίμην πένοιο πένοιτο
Dual πένοισθον πενοίσθην
Plural πενοίμεθα πένοισθε πένοιντο
ImperativeSingular πένου πενέσθω
Dual πένεσθον πενέσθων
Plural πένεσθε πενέσθων, πενέσθωσαν
Infinitive πένεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
πενομενος πενομενου πενομενη πενομενης πενομενον πενομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπενόμην ἐπένου ἐπένετο
Dual ἐπένεσθον ἐπενέσθην
Plural ἐπενόμεθα ἐπένεσθε ἐπένοντο

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

  • Ἐὰν δὲ πένηται καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εὑρίσκῃ, λήψεται ἀμνὸν ἕνα εἰσ ὃ ἐπλημμέλησεν εἰσ ἀφαίρεμα, ὥστε ἐξιλάσασθαι περὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ δέκατον σεμιδάλεωσ πεφυραμένησ ἐν ἐλαίῳ εἰσ θυσίαν, καὶ κοτύλην ἐλαίου μίαν, (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 14:21)
  • ἐὰν δὲ πένηται ὁ ἀδελφόσ σου ὁ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ ἀποδῶται ἀπὸ τῆσ κατασχέσεωσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔλθῃ ὁ ἀγχιστεύων ὁ ἐγγίζων αὐτῷ, καὶ λυτρώσεται τὴν πρᾶσιν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:25)
  • Ἐὰν δὲ πένηται ὁ ἀδελφόσ σου ὁ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ ἀδυνατήσῃ ταῖσ χερσὶ παρὰ σοί, ἀντιλήψῃ αὐτοῦ ὡσ προσηλύτου καὶ παροίκου καὶ ζήσεται ὁ ἀδελφόσ σου μετὰ σοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:35)
  • ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ πένηται, οὐ κοιμηθήσῃ ἐν τῷ ἐνεχύρῳ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 24:12)
  • ὀγδοάτη δ’ ἐνάτη τε, δύω γε μὲν ἤματα μηνὸσ ἔξοχ’ ἀεξομένοιο βροτήσια ἔργα πένεσθαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 94:4)
  • εἰ πένομαι, τί πάθω; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3031)

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

Similar forms

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

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