πραΰς
praÿs · G4239 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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mild, gentle, meek
Pertaining to being gentle and mild
ExamplesMatthew 5:5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.
Matthew 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
Matthew 21:5 “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μακάριοςblessed, happy 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- עָנָו ʻânâv · H6035 · afflicted, poor, humble
- עָנָו (ʻânâv, H6035) is the Hebrew lexical equivalent rendered by πραΰς (praÿs, G4239) in the LXX, both denoting humility, meekness, and lowliness of spirit or social station.
- עָנִי ʻânîy · H6041 · afflicted, poor, humble
- עָנִי (ʻânîy, H6041) denotes the socioeconomic or spiritual condition of being afflicted/lowly (often materially poor), while πραΰς (praÿs, G4239) denotes the character quality of gentleness/meekness; they overlap in contexts where humility before God connects both external lowliness and internal disposition (cf. Matthew 5:5 rendering the 'anawim piety tradition), but עָנִי (ʻânîy, H6041) carries affliction/poverty connotations absent from πραΰς (praÿs, G4239)'s pure temperament sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Mild, gentle, meek88.60
- The adjective describes a person as gentle or humble in disposition. Matthew's record of the Beatitudes uses this term: ““Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see πρᾷός.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
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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