πραΰ́ς
meekness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4239 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Peter
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, πραΰς (praÿs) means “meekness.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (75%), then 1 Peter. First canonically at Matthew 5:4, it enters the text early. It shares a root with πραος and πραΰτης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4239 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are the meek 1×, Meek 1×, Ornament of a meek 1×
- American Standard Version: Apparel of a meek 1×, Are the meek 1×, Meek 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gentle 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gentle 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4239 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4239 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4239 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4239 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- mildness of disposition…
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word; mild that is (by implication) humble : - meek. See also G4235 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4239 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πραέως praéōs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | 1 Peter 3:4 | 1 |
| πραΰς praý̈s | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:29 | 1 |
| πραεῖς praeîs | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 5:4 | 1 |
| πραῢς praỳ̈s | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 21:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4239, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πραΰς appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 8 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 12:3 πρᾳΰς
- Job 24:4 πραΰς
- Psalms 24:9 πραΰς
- Isaiah 26:6 πραΰς
- Daniel 4:12 πραΰς
- Joel 4:11 πραΰς
- Zephaniah 3:12 πραΰς
- Zechariah 9:9 πραΰς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4239) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 12:3 πρᾳΰς Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
- Job 24:4 πραΰς They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Job 36:15 πραΰς He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.
- Psalms 24:9 πραΰς Lift up your heads, you gates; Yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
- Psalms 33:3 πραΰς Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
- Psalms 36:11 πραΰς Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
- Psalms 75:10 πραΰς I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
- Psalms 146:6 πραΰς Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever;
- Psalms 149:4 πραΰς For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
- Isaiah 26:6 πραΰς The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
- Daniel 4:12 πραΰς The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.
- Joel 4:11 πραΰς
- Zephaniah 3:12 πραΰς But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
- Zechariah 9:9 πραΰς Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4239) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
