ponhrov" ponhrov" (on the accent cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 3 G?ttling, Lehre v., Accent, p. 304f; (Chandler sections 404, 405); Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch., p. 26), ponhrav, ponhrovn; comparitive ponhrovtero" (; ); (ponevw, povno"); from Hesiod (Homer (ep. 15, 20), Theog.) down; the Septuagint often for [r';1. full of labors, annoyances, hardships; a. pressed and harassed by labors; thus Hercules is called ponhrotato" kaiv a[risto", Hesiod fragment 43, 5. b. bringing toils, annoyances, perils: (kairov", ); hJmevra ponhrav, of a time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness, ; (so in the plural hJmevrai ponhraiv the Epistle of Barnabas 2, 1); causing pain and trouble (A. V. grievous), e{lko", .2. bad, of a bad nature or condition; a. in a physical sense: ojfqalmov", diseased or blind, ; (ponhriva ojfqalmw'n, Plato, Hipp., min., p. 374 d.; the Greeks use ponhrw'" e[cein or diakei'sqai of the sick; ejk geneth'" ponhrouv" uJgiei'" pepoihkevnai, Justin Martyr, Apology 1, 22 ((cf. Otto's note); others take ponhrov" in Matthew and Luke as above ethically; cf. b. and Meyer on Matt.)); karpov", f. b. in an ethical sense, evil, wicked, bad, etc. ("this use of the word is due to its association with the working (largely the servile) class; not that contempt for labor is thereby expressed, for such words as ejrgavth", drasthr, and the like, do not take on this evil sense, which connected itself only with a word expressive of unintermitted toil and carrying no suggestion of results" (cf. Schmidt, chapter 85, sec. 1); see kakiva, at the end); of persons: ; f; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; geneav ponhrav, ,; ; ; pneu'ma ponhrovn, an evil spirit (see pneu'ma, 3 c.), ; ; ; ; f, 15f; substantively oiJ ponhroiv, the wicked, bad men, opposed to oiJ divkaioi, ; ponhroiv kaiv ajgaqoiv, ; ; ajcavristoi kaiv ponhroiv, ; tovn ponhrovn, the wicked man, i. e. the evil-doer spoken of, ; tw'/ ponhrw'/, the evil man, who injures you, . oJ ponhrov" is used pre-eminently of the devil, the evil one: ; ; ,; R L; ; f; ; f (on which see kei'mai, 2{c}); . of things: aijwvn, ; o[noma (which see 1, p. 447a bottom), ; rJa/diouvrghma, ; the heart as a storehouse out of which a man brings forth ponhrav wor