Word Summary
praos: meek
Original Word: πρᾷοςTransliteration: praos
Phonetic Spelling: (prah'-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: meek
Meaning: meek
Strong's Concordance
meek.
A form of praus, used in certain parts; gentle, i.e. Humble -- meek.
see GREEK praus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4235: πρᾷόςπρᾷός (so
R G in
Matthew 11:29; on the iota subscript, cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 403f; Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 64, 2 i., p. 255; (
Lipsius, Gramm. Untersuch., p. 7f; cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 5, 4 d. and p. 45 (44))) or
πρᾷός,
πραα,
πραου, and
πραΰς (
L T Tr WH, so
R G in
Matthew 21:5 (4); (cf.
Tdf. Proleg., p. 82)),
πραείᾳ,
πραυ, genitive
πραέως T Tr WH for the common form
πρᾳέος (so Lachmann;
πρᾳέος R G), see
βαθέως (cf.
Buttmann, 26 (23)), plural
πραεῖς L T Tr WH,
πραεῖς R G; from
Homer down;
gentle, mild, meek:
Matthew 5:5(4);
; 1 Peter 3:4; the Sept. several times for עָנָו and עָנִי. (Cf. Schmidt, chapter 98, 2; Trench, § xlii.; Clement of Alexandria, strom. 4, 6, 36.)