{"id":55867,"date":"2022-09-28T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/humble-adjective-and-verb\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:20:47","slug":"humble-adjective-and-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/humble-adjective-and-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble (Adjective and Verb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Humble (Adjective and Verb)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> primarily signifies &#8220;low-lying.&#8221; It is used always in a good sense in the NT, metaphorically, to denote (a) &#8220;of low degree, brought low,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 1:52<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 12:16<\/span>, AV, &#8220;(men) of low estate,&#8221; RV, &#8220;(things that are) lowly&#8221; (i.e., of low degree); <span class='bible'>2Co 7:6<\/span>, AV, &#8220;cast down,&#8221; RV, &#8220;lowly;&#8221; the preceding context shows that this occurrence belongs to (a); <span class='bible'>Jam 1:9<\/span>, &#8220;of low degree;&#8221; (b) humble in spirit, <span class='bible'>Mat 11:29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Co 10:1<\/span>, RV, &#8220;lowly,&#8221; AV &#8220;base;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Jam 4:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 5:5<\/span>. See BASE, CAST, Note (7), DEGREE (Note), LOWLY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;humble-minded&#8221; (phren, &#8220;the mind&#8221;), <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:8<\/span>; see COURTEOUS. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> akin to A, signifies &#8220;to make low,&#8221; (a) literally, &#8220;of mountains and hills,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 3:5<\/span> (Passive Voice); (b) metaphorically, in the Active Voice, <span class='bible'>Mat 18:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 23:12<\/span> (2nd part); <span class='bible'>Luk 14:11<\/span> (2nd part); <span class='bible'>Luk 18:14<\/span> (2nd part); <span class='bible'>2Co 11:7<\/span> (&#8220;abasing&#8221;); <span class='bible'>2Co 12:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Phi 2:8<\/span>; in the Passive Voice, <span class='bible'>Mat 23:12<\/span> (1st part), RV, &#8220;shall be humbled,&#8221; AV, &#8220;shall be abased;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 14:11<\/span> (ditto); <span class='bible'>Luk 18:14<\/span> (ditto); <span class='bible'>Phi 4:12<\/span>, &#8220;to be abased;&#8221; in the Passive, with Middle voice sense, <span class='bible'>Jam 4:10<\/span>, &#8220;humble yourselves;&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Pe 5:6<\/span> (ditto). See ABASE, LOW (to bring). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humble (Adjective and Verb) primarily signifies &#8220;low-lying.&#8221; It is used always in a good sense in the NT, metaphorically, to denote (a) &#8220;of low degree, brought low,&#8221; Luk 1:52; Rom 12:16, AV, &#8220;(men) of low estate,&#8221; RV, &#8220;(things that are) lowly&#8221; (i.e., of low degree); 2Co 7:6, AV, &#8220;cast down,&#8221; RV, &#8220;lowly;&#8221; the preceding context &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/humble-adjective-and-verb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Humble (Adjective and Verb)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}