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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

  • λούσασθε καὶ καθαροὶ γίνεσθε, ἀφέλετε τὰσ πονηρίασ ἀπὸ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ἀπέναντι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν μου, παύσασθε ἀπὸ τῶν πονηριῶν ὑμῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 1:16)
  • τοῦ μάχεσθαι πρὸσ τοὺσ Χαλδαίουσ καὶ πληρῶσαι αὐτὴν τῶν νεκρῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, οὓσ ἐπάταξα ἐν ὀργῇ μου καὶ ἐν θυμῷ μου, καὶ ἀπέστρεψα τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ’ αὐτῶν περὶ πασῶν τῶν πονηριῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 40:5)
  • τίσ οὖν τούτων τῶν πονηριῶν αἰσχίστη; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 185:2)
  • ὑμῖν πρῶτον ἀναστήσασ ὁ θεὸσ τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτὸν εὐλογοῦντα ὑμᾶσ ἐν τῷ ἀποστρέφειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ τῶν πονηριῶν [ὑμῶν]. (, chapter 1 105:1)

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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