Gentleness

The Fruit of Gentleness: Strength Under Control

If you were to look up "gentleness" in a standard dictionary, you’d find definitions like being calm, kind, tender, or mild. While those words certainly describe a gentle spirit, Scripture takes us much deeper. In the Greek New Testament, four closely related words (prautēs, praus, etc.) are translated as either "gentleness" or "meekness." In ancient Greek culture, prautēs was famously used to describe a wild horse that had been broken and trained—a creature possessing massive power, but whose power was fully submitted to the rider.