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πονηρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πονηρία

Structure: πονηρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ponhro/s

Sense

  1. a bad state or condition, badness
  2. wickedness, vice, knavery, knavish tricks, rogueries
  3. baseness, cowardice

Declension

First declension

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

  • μή ποτε εἴπωσιν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι λέγοντεσ. μετὰ πονηρίασ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτοὺσ ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσι καὶ ἐξαναλῶσαι αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ. παῦσαι τῆσ ὀργῆσ τοῦ θυμοῦ σου καὶ ἵλεωσ γενοῦ ἐπὶ τῇ κακίᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 32:12)
  • καὶ εἶπαν. μὴ ἡμῖν χρήσῃ κατὰ τὰσ πονηρίασ ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ ἔλεόσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 13:46)
  • μὴ ἐκκλίνῃσ τὴν καρδίαν μου εἰσ λόγουσ πονηρίασ τοῦ προφασίζεσθαι προφάσεισ ἐν ἁμαρτίαισ σὺν ἀνθρώποισ ἐργαζομένοισ τὴν ἀνομίαν, καὶ οὐ μὴ συνδυάσω μετὰ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 140:4)
  • ἐκ γὰρ ἀνόμων ὕπνων τέκνα γεννώμενα μάρτυρέσ εἰσι πονηρίασ κατὰ γονέων ἐν ἐξετασμῷ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:6)
  • ἀρεστὴ γὰρ ἦν Κυρίῳ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ. διὰ τοῦτο ἔσπευσεν ἐκ μέσου πονηρίασ. οἱ δὲ λαοὶ ἰδόντεσ καὶ μὴ νοήσαντεσ, μηδὲ θέντεσ ἐπὶ διανοίᾳ τὸ τοιοῦτον, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:14)

Synonyms

  1. a bad state or condition

  2. baseness

Related

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

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