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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

이 사람을 보라

Pronunciation / Transliteration: I saram-eul bora

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ecce homo/ˌɛk.si ˈhoʊ.moʊ/
nouninterjectionCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 미술 작품은 '이 사람을 보라'는 주제를 담고 있다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A representation of Jesus Christ presented by Pontius Pilate to the people, or more generally, a portrayal of a suffering human figure.

    "The museum acquired a rare Renaissance painting depicting the ecce homo."
  2. 2

    An expression used to point out a person in a state of extreme suffering, vulnerability, or exposure.

    "Staring into the mirror, he felt his own condition was a modern ecce homo."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin phrase 'ecce homo', meaning 'behold the man'. It originates from the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John (19:5), where Pontius Pilate presents Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to the hostile crowd.

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