Dictionaries :: Courteous, Courteously

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Courteous, Courteously:

"lowly-minded," is used in 1Pe 3:8, "be courteous," AV (RV, "humble-minded").

Courteous, Courteously:

lit., "friendly," or, more fully, "with friendly thoughtfulness" (philos, "friend," phren, "the mind"), is found in Act 28:7, of the hospitality showed by Publius to Paul and his fellow-shipwrecked travelers.

Note: Some mss. have the corresponding adjective philophron, "courteous," in 1Pe 3:8; the most authentic mss. have tapeinophron, "humble-minded."

Courteous, Courteously:

is translated "courteously" in Act 27:3, AV; RV, "kindly" (Eng., "philanthropically").
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