STRONGS G5013:
ταπεινόω,
ταπεινῷ; future
ταπεινώσω; 1 aorist
ἐταπείνωσα; passive, present
ταπεινοῦμαι; 1 aorist
ἐταπεινώθην; 1 future
ταπεινωθήσομαι; (
ταπεινός);
to make low, bring low (
Vulg. humilio);
a. properly:
ὄρος,
βουνόν, i. e. to level, reduce to a plain, passive,
Luke 3:5 from
Isaiah 40:4.
b. metaphorically,
to bring into it humble condition, reduce to meaner circumstances; i. e.
α. to assign a lower rank or place to; to abase;
τινα, passive,
to be ranked below others who are honored or rewarded (
R. V. to humble):
Matthew 23:12;
Luke 14:11;
Luke 18:14.
β. ταπεινῷ ἐμαυτόν,
to humble or abase myself, by frugal living,
2 Corinthians 11:7; in the passive of one who submits to want,
Philippians 4:12;
ἑαυτόν, of one who stoops to the condition of s servant,
Philippians 2:8.
c. to lower, depress (English
humble):
τινα, one's soul, bring down one's pride;
ἐμαυτόν, to have a modest opinion of oneself, to behave in an unassuming manner devoid of all haughtiness,
Matthew 18:4;
Matthew 23:12;
Luke 14:11;
Luke 18:14; passive,
ταπεινοῦμαι ἐνώπιον κυρίου (see
ἐνώπιον, 2 b. at the end) in a middle sense (
Buttmann, 52 (46)), to confess and deplore one's spiritual littleness and unworthiness,
James 4:10 (in the same sense
ταπεινοῦν τήν ψυχήν αὐτοῦ, Sir. 2:17 Sir. 7:17; the
Sept. for
נַפְשׁו עִנָּה,
he afflicted his soul, of persons fasting,
Leviticus 16:29,
31;
Leviticus 23:27,
32;
Isaiah 58:3,
5,
10;
τήν ψυχήν τίνος, to disturb, distress, the soul of one, Protevangelium Jacobi, c. 2.13.15 (rather,
to humiliate; see the passages));
ὑπό τήν χεῖρα τοῦ Θεοῦ, to submit oneself in a lowly spirit to the power and will of God,
1 Peter 5:6 (cf.
Genesis 16:9); equivalent to
to put to the blush, 2 Corinthians 12:21. ((
Hippocrates),
Xenophon,
Plato,
Diodorus,
Plutarch; the
Sept. for
עָנָה,
שָׁפֵל and
הִשְׁפִּיל,
דִּכָּא,
הִכְנִיעַ, etc.) (See references under the word
ταπεινοφροσύνη.)
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