Word

πραΰτης

praÿtēs · G4240 · Greek · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

gentleness, meekness, mildness

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

Examples
1 Corinthians 4:21 What do you desire? That I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
Galatians 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

σοφίαwisdom 1
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνδείκνυμιto cause to be known 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐνin 6
μετάwith, after 4
διάthrough 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

πνεῦμαspirit 2

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Gentleness, meekness, mildness88.59: The noun names the quality of gentleness or meekness. Paul's list of the fruit of the Spirit uses this term: “gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” (Galatians 5:23).

Word family 2 words

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

πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek · 4×πραΰτηςpraÿtēs · G4240

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see πραότης.

see πραότης.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Gentleness, Mildness11 occurrences

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