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Strong's #5013 - ταπεινόω
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- to make low, bring low
- to level, reduce to a plain
- metaph. to bring into a humble condition, reduce to meaner circumstances
- to assign a lower rank or place to
- to abase
- to be ranked below others who are honoured or rewarded
- to humble or abase myself by humble living
- to lower, depress
- of one's soul bring down one's pride
- to have a modest opinion of one's self
- to behave in an unassuming manner
- devoid of all haughtiness
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τᾰπειν-όω,
lower, in point of height, reduce, σπλῆνα (swollen spleen) Dsc. 2.155: — Pass., πᾶν ὄρος ταπεινωθήσεται LXX Isaiah 40:4; πρόσωπον ἐκ μετεώρου ταπεινούμενον Hp. Coac. 208; of a plant, decrease in size, Thphr. HP 7.13.9; of rivers, D.S. 1.36; Astrol., of a planet, suffer dejection, Vett.Val. 119.15.
II metaph., lessen, τὸν φθόνον Plu. Per. 32; τὸ ἐν μέλιτι χολῶδες Gal. 15.683 (to expl. κολάζεται in Hp. Acut. 59); disparage, minimize, Plb. 6.15.7, cf. 3.85.7: — Pass., to be lowered or lessened, Pl. Ti. 72d.
2. humble, abase, X. An. 6.3.18; τ. καὶ συστέλλων Pl. Ly. 210e; ταπεινώσαντες.. τοὺς νῦν ἐπηρμένους Aeschin. 3.235: — Pass., ταπεινωθεὶς ἕπεται Pl. Phdr. 254e; ὑπὸ πενίας Id. R. 553c, Phld. Rh. 1.225 S.; τεταπείνωται ἡ τῶν Ἀθηναίων δόξα X. Mem. 3.5.4; ἐταπεινοῦντο ταῖς ἐλπίσι D.S. 13.11; τεταπεινωμένων τῶν ἄλλων διὰ τὴν τῶν πραγμάτων κατάστασιν Anon. Oxy. 664.22. violate a woman, LXX Genesis 34:2, 2 Kings 13:12; 2 Kings 13:14, Ezekiel 22:10-11.
3. in moral sense, make lowly, humble, ἑαυτόν Phld. Vit. p.38 J., Matthew 23:12, al.: — Pass., humble oneself, τὴν θεὸν ἐξιλάσαντο τῷ ταπεινοῦσθαι σφόδρα Men. 544, cf. LXX Genesis 16:9, Si. 18.21, 1 Peter 5:6.
4. esp. of fasting or abstinence, θεοῦ ᾧ πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἐν τῇ σήμερον ἡμέρᾳ (i.e. on a fast-day) ταπεινοῦται μεθ' ἱκετείας SIG 1181.11 (Rhenea, Jewish, ii A.D.); ἐὰν ψυχὴν τεταπεινωμένην ἐμπλήσῃς feed the hungry, LXX Isaiah 58:10, cf. Leviticus 23:27, al.; οἶδα ταπεινοῦσθαι, opp. περισσεύειν, Philippians 4:12.
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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ταπεινόω , -ῶ
(< ταπεινός ),
[in LXX chiefly for H6030, also for H8213, H3665, etc.;]
to make low: ὄρος (βουνόν ), Luke 3:5 (LXX). Metaph., to humble, abase: Matthew 18:4; Matthew 23:12, Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14, 2 Corinthians 11:7; 2 Corinthians 12:21, Philippians 2:8; pass., Matthew 23:12, Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14, Philippians 4:12; id. with mid. sense, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6.†
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τολμητής.
By τολμητής in 2 Peter 2:10 Mayor ad l. understands ";a shameless and headstrong man."; For a somewhat weaker sense cf. Jos. B.J. III. 475 (x. 2), ed. Niese Ἰουδαῖοι μέν, εἰ καὶ σφόδρα τολμηταὶ καὶ θανάτου καταφρονοῦντες, ἀλλὰ πολέμων ἄπειροι.
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