Word 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.