πραΰ́της
meekness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4240 appears in the Book of Galatians — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Galatians
- Galatians 5:23 πραΰτης n nom sg fem gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Galatians 6:1 πραΰτητος n gen sg fem Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
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, πραΰτης (praÿtēs) means “meekness.” Scripture first uses it in 1 Corinthians 4:21. It appears 12 verses across 10 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. It clusters with πραΰς and πραος under a shared root. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4240 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Galatians 2 verses 17%
- James 2 verses 17%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 8%
By section of the New Testament
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 12 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 9 verses · 75%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 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: Meekness 3×
- American Standard Version: Meekness 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gentleness 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gentleness 5×, Humility 3×, Meekness 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4240 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4240 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4240 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear 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 G4240 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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, gentleness of spirit, meekness
Word origin
Derived from πραΰς (praÿs) (G4239) — meekness.
From G4239 ; mildness that is (by implication) humility : - meekness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G4240 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πραΰτητος praý̈tētos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 4:21 | 5 |
| πραΰτητι praý̈tēti | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Timothy 2:25 | 3 |
| πραΰτητα praý̈tēta | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Colossians 3:12 | 2 |
| πραΰτης praý̈tēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Galatians 5:23 | 1 |
| πραϋπαθίαν praÿpathían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 6:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4240, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πραΰτης appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 1 book.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 44:5 πραΰτης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4240) 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.
- Psalms 44:5 πραΰτης Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
- Psalms 89:10 πραΰτης You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
- Psalms 131:1 πραΰτης Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4240) 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.
