Lexical Summary ēpios: gentle, mild Original Word: ἤπιοςTransliteration: ēpios Phonetic Spelling: (ay'-pee-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: gentle, mild Meaning: gentle, mild Strong's Concordance gentle. Probably from epos; properly, affable, i.e. Mild or kind -- gentle. see GREEK epos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2261: ἤπιοςἤπιος, ἠπια, ἤπιον, rarely of two terminations, (apparently derived from ἔπος, εἰπεῖν, so that it properly means affable (so Etym. Magn. 434, 20; but cf. Vanicek, p. 32)); from Homer down; mild, gentle: 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (where L WH νήπιος, which see at the end); πρός τινα, 2 Timothy 2:24. |
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