Meaning
Abase <1,,5013, tapeinoo>
signifies "to make low, bring low," (a) of bringing to the ground, making level, reducing to a plain, as in Luk 3:5; (b) metaphorically in the Active Voice, to bring to a humble condition, "to abase," 2Co 11:7, and in the Passive, "to be abased," Phi 4:12; in Mat 23:12, Luk 14:11, Luk 18:14, the AV has "shall be abased," the RV "shall be humbled." It is translated "humble yourselves" in the Middle Voice sense in Jam 4:10, 1Pe 5:6; "humble," in Mat 18:4, 2Co 12:21 and Phi 2:8. See HUMBLE, LOW. Cp., tapeinos, "lowly," tapeinois, "humiliation," and tapeinophrosune, "humility."
