4235. praos

Strong's Lexicon

praos: Meek, gentle, humble

Original Word: πραΰς
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: praos
Pronunciation: prah-oce
Phonetic Spelling: (prah'-os)
Definition: Meek, gentle, humble
Meaning: mild, gentle, meek, kind.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 4235 práos – meek, i.e. the necessary balance of exercising power and avoiding harshness. See 4236 (praotēs).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
variant reading for praus, q.v.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4235: πρᾷός

πρᾷός (so R G in Matthew 11:29; on the iota subscript, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 403f; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 64, 2 i., p. 255; (Lipsius, Gramm. Untersuch., p. 7f; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 5, 4 d. and p. 45 (44))) or πρᾷός, πραα, πραου, and πραΰς (L T Tr WH, so R G in Matthew 21:5 (4); (cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 82)), πραείᾳ, πραυ, genitive πραέως T Tr WH for the common form πρᾳέος (so Lachmann; πρᾳέος R G), see βαθέως (cf. Buttmann, 26 (23)), plural πραεῖς L T Tr WH, πραεῖς R G; from Homer down; gentle, mild, meek: Matthew 5:5(4); ; 1 Peter 3:4; the Sept. several times for עָנָו and עָנִי. (Cf. Schmidt, chapter 98, 2; Trench, § xlii.; Clement of Alexandria, strom. 4, 6, 36.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

meek.

A form of praus, used in certain parts; gentle, i.e. Humble -- meek.

see GREEK praus

Forms and Transliterations

πράός

Englishman's Concordance

πρᾶγμα — 3 Occ.
πράγματι — 3 Occ.
πραγμάτων — 4 Occ.
πράγματος — 1 Occ.
πραγματείαις — 1 Occ.
πραγματεύσασθε — 1 Occ.
πραιτωρίῳ — 2 Occ.
πραιτώριον — 6 Occ.
πράκτωρ — 1 Occ.
πράκτορι — 1 Occ.
πράξεις — 2 Occ.
πράξεσιν — 1 Occ.
πρᾶξιν — 2 Occ.
πρασιαὶ — 2 Occ.
ἔπραξα — 1 Occ.
ἐπράξαμεν — 1 Occ.
ἔπραξαν — 1 Occ.
ἐπράξατε — 1 Occ.
ἔπραξεν — 2 Occ.
πέπραχά — 1 Occ.