Greek adjective · G4235
πρᾷος
praiosprah'-os
gentle
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prâios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4235is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4235
gentle, i.e. humble
The King James renders it: meek.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
praios is rendered "gentle". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:5Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5πραεῖς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gentle3
- meek1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρᾳότης | praiotes | gentleness | Uses8 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πραεῖς1
- πραέως1
- πραΰς1
- πραῢς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1A-GSN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
Matthew
three uses
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- πραεῖςpraeisadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: meek
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.
- πραΰςprausadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: gentle
“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
- πραῢςprausadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: gentle
1 Peter
one use
but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
- πραέωςpraeosadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: gentle
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.