The Greek and Ge’ez that is typically translated as “gentleness” in English is translated in various ways:
- Suki: gitusaena inae or “not-snatching way” (source L. and E. Twyman in The Bible Translator 1953, p. 91ff. )
- Tibetan: sems dul ba (སེམས་དུལ་བ།), lit. “mind + tame” (source: gSungrab website )
- Ojitlán Chinantec: “make hearts good”
- Isthmus Mixe: “speak with patience”
- Tenango Otomi: “speak in a good way”
- Tabasco Chontal: “mind should be good with all” (source for this and three above: John Beekman & Harwood Hess in Notes on Translation, March 1963, p. 1ff.)
See also meek / meekness, spirit of gentleness and gentle and quiet spirit.
