Abase, abasement

Abase is three times used in AV, and retained in RV to translate ^tv shAphH, otherwise rendered ' bring low ' or 'make low,' 'bring down' or 'bow down,' ' humble ' ; and once to tr. riy^. Is 31* ' he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself ( = be cast down) for the noise of them.' In NT it is five times used to render Taireivbu, changed in RV into ' humble,' except in Ph 4'' ' I know how to be abased,' and 2 Co 11' 'Commit a sin in abasing myself.'

Abasement, meaning humiliation, occurs in Sir 20" ' There is as a. because of glory ; and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.' Cf. Sir 25" RV ' A wicked woman is a. of heart ' (AV ' abateth the courage '). Notice that ' abase- ment ' and ' basement ' (a mod. word) are distinct, both in derivation and meaning. J. Hastings.