Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5012: ταπεινοφροσύνηταπεινοφροσύνη, ταπεινοφροσύνης, ἡ (ταπεινόφρων; opposed to μεγαλοφροσύνη, ὑψηλοφροσύνη (cf. Winers Grammar, 99 (94))), "the having a humble opinion of oneself; a deep sense of one's (moral) littleness; modesty, humility, lowliness of mind"; (Vulg.humilitas, Luth. Demuth): Acts 20:19; Ephesians 4:2; Philippians 2:3; Colossians 3:12; 1 Peter 5:5; used of an affected and ostentatious humility in Colossians 2:18, 23. (The word occurs neither in the O. T., nor in secular authors — (but in Josephus, b. j. 4, 9, 2 in the sense of pusillanimity; also Epictetus diss. 3, 24, 56 in a bad sense. See Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § xlii.; Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited; Zezschwitz, Profangräcität, as above w., pp. 20, 62; Winer's Grammar, 26).) STRONGS NT 5012a: ταπεινόφρωνταπεινόφρων, ταπεινοφρον (ταπεινός and φρήν), humble-minded, i. e. having a modest opinion of oneself: 1 Peter 3:8, where Rec. φιλόφρονες. (Proverbs 29:23; in a bad sense, pusillanimous, mean-spirited, μικρούς ἡ τύχῃ καί περιδηις ποιεῖ καί ταπεινόφρονας, Plutarch, de Alex. fort. 2, 4; (de tranquill. animi 17. See Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3 and references under the word ταπεινοφροσύνη, at the end).) Forms and Transliterations ταπεινόφρονας ταπεινοφρονες ταπεινόφρονες ταπεινοφροσυνη ταπεινοφροσύνη ταπεινοφροσύνῃ ταπεινοφροσυνην ταπεινοφροσύνην ταπεινοφροσυνης ταπεινοφροσύνης tapeinophrones tapeinóphrones tapeinophrosune tapeinophrosunē tapeinophrosunen tapeinophrosunēn tapeinophrosunes tapeinophrosunēs tapeinophrosyne tapeinophrosynē tapeinophrosýnei tapeinophrosýnēi tapeinophrosynen tapeinophrosynēn tapeinophrosýnen tapeinophrosýnēn tapeinophrosynes tapeinophrosynēs tapeinophrosýnes tapeinophrosýnēsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |