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πονηρεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πονηρεύομαι

Structure: πονηρεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be evil, act wickedly, play the rogue

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • μὴ ἅψησθε τῶν χριστῶν μου καὶ ἐν τοῖσ προφήταισ μου μὴ πονηρεύεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 16:22)
  • παῦσαι ἀπὸ ὀργῆσ καὶ ἐγκατάλιπε θυμόν, μὴ παραζήλου ὥστε πονηρεύεσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 36:8)
  • μὴ ἅπτεσθε τῶν χριστῶν μου καὶ ἐν τοῖσ προφήταισ μου μὴ πονηρεύεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 104:15)
  • ἐκεῖνον μὲν γὰρ ἐπιτρίτων τόκων πονηρεύεσθαι, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἐπιδεκάτων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 10 7:9)
  • μὴ τοίνυν ἐξὸν καὶ τότ’ ἀληθεύειν δοκεῖν καὶ νῦν τὰ δίκαια πράττειν, τρία ταῦτ’ ἀνθέλησθε τὰ χείριστα, ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τε κακοὶ γνώμην γενέσθαι περὶ ἡμᾶσ καὶ ληφθέντεσ ἀναισχυντεῖν καὶ νῦν αὖθισ ἐξεπίτηδεσ πονηρεύεσθαι, μηδ’ ἀνθ’ ὧν ἥκομεν ἡμεῖσ ὑμῖν ἐθέλοντεσ τοῦ κινδύνου κοινωνεῖν, ἀντὶ τούτων ὑμεῖσ Φιλίππῳ συνεμβάλλοντεσ ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ φανεροὶ γένησθε. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 12:3)

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

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