Word Summary
praotēs: meekness
Original Word: πρᾳότηςTransliteration: praotēs
Phonetic Spelling: (prah-ot'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: meekness
Meaning: meekness
Strong's Concordance
meekness.
From praios; gentleness, by implication, humility -- meekness.
see GREEK praios
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4236: πραότηςπραότης (
Rec. and Griesbach (except in
James 1:21;
James 3:13;
1 Peter 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
James 1:21;
James 3:13;
1 Peter 3:15; Lachmann everywhere except in
Galatians 6:1;
Ephesians 4:2;
Treg. everywhere (except in
2 Corinthians 10:1;
Galatians 5:23 (22);
; Ephesians 4:2), T WH everywhere; cf. B. 26f (23f)), πρᾳότητος, ἡ, gentleness, mildness, meekness: 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Galatians 5:23 (22); ; Colossians 3:12; Ephesians 4:2; 1 Timothy 6:11 R; 2 Timothy 2:25; Titus 3:2; James 1:21; James 3:13; 1 Peter 3:16 (15). (Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus, Josephus, others; for עַנְוָה, Psalm 44:4 ()) (Synonym: see ἐπιείκεια, at the end; Trench (as there referred to, but especially) § xlii.; Lightfoot on Colossians 3:13.)