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πρᾳότης

praiótēs · G4236 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. gentleness, meekness, mildness

    Gentleness of attitude and behavior, in contrast with harshness in one’s dealings with others

    Examples

    1 Timothy 6:11 But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Gentleness, meekness, mildness88.59
The noun names the quality of gentleness or meekness. Paul's instruction to Timothy uses this term: “But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness” (1 Timothy 6:11).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πρᾷος prâios · G4235 · gentle, i.e. humble · 0×πρᾳότηςpraiótēs · G4236
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Rec. and Griesbach (except in Jas 1:21; Jas 3:13; 1 Pet 3:15); see the preceding word),…
(Rec. and Griesbach (except in Jas 1:21; Jas 3:13; 1 Pet 3:15); see the preceding word), πραότης (so Lachmann), and according to a later form πραΰτης (so R and G, but with the iota subscript under the alpha ἆ, in Jas 1:21; Jas 3:13; 1 Pet 3:15; Lachmann everywhere except in Gal 6:1; Eph 4:2; Treg. everywhere (except in 2 Cor 10:1; Gal 5:23 (22); ; Eph 4:2), T WH everywhere; cf. B. 26f (23f)), πρᾳότητος, ἡ, gentleness, mildness, meekness: 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 10:1; Gal 5:23 (22); ; Col 3:12; Eph 4:2; 1 Tim 6:11 R; 2 Tim 2:25; Tit 3:2; Jas 1:21; Jas 3:13; 1 Pet 3:16 (15). (Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus, Josephus, others; for עַנְוָה, Ps 44:4) (Synonym: see ἐπιείκεια, at the end; Trench (as there referred to, but especially) § xlii.; Lightfoot on Col 3:13.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Gentleness, Mildness1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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