ταπεινόω

tapeinovw tapeinovw,
tapeinw'/; future
tapeinwvsw; 1 aorist
ejtapeivnwsa; passive, present
tapeinou'mai; 1 aorist
ejtapeinwvqhn; 1 future
tapeinwqhvsomai; (
tapeinov"); to make low, bring low (Vulgate humilio); a. properly:
o[ro",
bounovn, i. e. to level, reduce to a plain, passive, from . b. metaphorically, to bring into it humble condition, reduce to meaner circumstances; i. e.
a. to assign a lower rank or place to; to abase;
tina, passive, to be ranked below others who are honored or rewarded (R. V. to humble): ; ; .
b.
tapeinw'/
ejmautovn, to humble or abase myself, by frugal living, ; in the passive of one who submits to want, ;
eJautovn, of one who stoops to the condition of s servant, . c. to lower, depress (English humble):
tina, one's soul, bring down one's pride;
ejmautovn, to have a modest opinion of oneself, to behave in an unassuming manner devoid of all haughtiness, ; ; ; ; passive,
tapeinou'mai
ejnwvpion
kurivou (see
ejnwvpion, 2 b. at the end) in a middle sense (Buttmann, 52 (46)), to confess and deplore one's spiritual littleness and unworthiness, (in the same sense
tapeinou'n
thvn
yuchvn
aujtou', ; ; the Septuagint for /vp]n" hN:[i, he afflicted his soul, of persons fasting, ,; ,; ,,;
thvn
yuchvn
tivno", to disturb, distress, the soul of one, Protevangelium Jacobi, c. 2.13.15 (rather, to humiliate; see the passages));
uJpov
thvn
cei'ra
tou'
Qeou', to submit oneself in a lowly spirit to the power and will of God, (cf. ); equivalent to to put to the blush, . ((Hippocrates), Xenophon, Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch; the Septuagint for hn:[;, lpev; and lyPiv]hi, aK;DI,  ["ynIk]hi, etc.) (See references under the word
tapeinofrosuvnh.)*