Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
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Humility
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1 Peter 5:5
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.
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ταπεινοφροσύνη
tapeinophrosýnē · tap-i-nof-ros-oo'-nay
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
humiliation of mind, i.e. modesty
Strong's KJV usage: :--humbleness of mind, humility (of mind, loneliness (of mind).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Colossians 2:18Strong's last: 1 Peter 5:5
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ʻănâvâh · an-aw-vaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
condescension, human and subjective (modesty), or divine and objective (clemency)
Strong's KJV usage: gentleness, humility, meekness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 15:33Strong's last: Proverbs 22:4
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The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
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Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
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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:
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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,
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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.
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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.
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humility
HUMIL'ITY, noun [Latin humilitas.]
1. In ethics, freedom from pride and arrogance; humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth. In theology, humility consists in lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God, self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will.
Before honor is humility Proverbs 15:33.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts 20:19.
2. Act of submission.
With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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