Tapeinophrosyne means “humbleness of mind” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5012 — naba (“make self a prophet”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5012 ταπεινοφροσύνη (tapeinophrosune) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tapeinophrosune (tap-ei-nof-ros-oo'-nay) n. 1. humiliation of mind, i.e. modesty [from a compound of G5011 and the base of G5424] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include mind and humility. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
tapeinophrosune (tap-ei-nof-ros-oo'-nay) n. 1. humiliation of mind, i.e. modesty [from a compound of G5011 and the base of G5424] KJV: humbleness of mind, humility (of mind, loneliness (of mind) Root(s): G5011, G5424
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humility
Usage: ταπεινοφροσύνη, -ης, ἡ (ταπεινόφρων) lowliness of mind, humility: Act.20:19, Eph.4:2, Php.2:3, Col.3:12, 1Pe.5:5; of a false humility, Col.2:18, 23 (rare outside of NT, but found in bad sense in FlJ, BJ, iv, 9, 2; also in Epictet., see Tr., Syn., § xlii).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tapeinophrosune, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5012 (ταπεινοφροσύνη) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Elisa, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5012.
The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Elisa, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5012, grouped by book.
Tapeinophrosyne (Strong's G5012) is a Greek word most simply glossed "humbleness of mind". tapeinophrosune (tap-ei-nof-ros-oo'-nay) n. 1. humiliation of mind, i.e. modesty [from a compound of G5011 and the base of G5424]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G5012 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5012 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mind and humility. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G5012, with linked reader references where each row is available.