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epieikḗs

gentle, reasonable, forbearing

Say it: ep-ee-ay-KACE (approximate)

ἐπιεικής

What it means

Gentle, fair, yielding, ready to give way rather than insist on one's rights. In 4:5, "let your gentleness be known to all men." In 1 Timothy 3:3, an overseer must be "gentle."

Range of meaning

  • GentleMild.
  • ForbearingWilling to yield.

In Philippians

  • Chapter 4

    "Let your gentleness be known" (4:5).

Every verse (1)

Verses where G1933 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources