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συκοφάντης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκοφάντης συκοφάντου

Structure: συκοφαντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. a false accuser, slanderer, sycophant, a false adviser, one who informed against persons exporting figs, a fig-shewer, one who brings figs to light by shaking the tree, one who makes rich men yield up their fruit by false accusations).

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

  • κρινεῖ τοὺσ πτωχοὺσ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ σώσει τοὺσ υἱοὺσ τῶν πενήτων καὶ ταπεινώσει συκοφάντην (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 71:4)
  • ὁ συκοφαντῶν πένητα παροξύνει τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ τιμῶν αὐτὸν ἐλεεῖ πτωχόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:31)
  • ὁ συκοφαντῶν πένητα πολλὰ ποιεῖ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ. δίδωσι δὲ πλουσίῳ ἐπ̓ ἐλλάσσονι. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:18)
  • βασιλεὺσ ἐνδεὴσ προσόδων μέγασ συκοφάντησ, ὁ δὲ μισῶν ἀδικίαν μακρὸν χρόνον ζήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 28:16)
  • ὁ Δημοσθένησ ὁ πικρὸσ συκοφάντησ διαστρέφων τὸ πρᾶγμα τῇ δεινότητι τῶν ῥημάτων διέβαλεν. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 33:1)
  • καὶ ὁ τῦφοσ δὲ καὶ ἡ μεγαλαυχία καὶ ἡ κακοήθεια καὶ τὸ βρενθύεσθαι καὶ λαρυγγίζειν ἀπέστω, καὶ τὸ διασιλλαίνειν τὰ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ οἰέσθαι ὅτι πρῶτοσ ἔσῃ αὐτόσ, ἢν τὰ πάντων συκοφαντῇσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 24:1)
  • ταυτὶ σὺ τολμᾷσ πτωχὸσ ὢν ἡμᾶσ λέγειν, καὶ συκοφάντησ εἴ τισ ἦν ὠνείδισασ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:2)
  • ἐνταῦθα μήτε συκοφάντησ εἰσίτω μήτ’ ἄλλοσ ὅστισ Φασιανόσ ἐστ’ ἀνήρ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode4)

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

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