1 Timothy 2 · Verse 11

1 Timothy 2:11

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 2:11, King James Version

1 Timothy 2:11 in other translations

BSBA woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
WEBLet a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
ASVLet a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
YLTLet a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
DARBYLet a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
BBELet a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.
WebsterLet the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

What does 1 Timothy 2:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. learn--not "teach" (1Ti 2:12; 1Co 14:34). She should not even put questions in the public assembly (1Co 14:35). with all subjection--not "usurping authority" (1Ti 2:12). She might teach, but not in public (Ac 18:26). Paul probably wrote this Epistle from Corinth, where the precept (1Co 14:34) was in force.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 11. Let the woman learn in silence. Listen attentively to instruction, without attempting to teach in public. 1Cor 14:35.

With all subjection. With due subjection to those who are in authority, and who are appointed to minister in holy things 1Cor 14:34.

(a) "woman learn" 1Cor 14:34

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Let the woman learn in silence - This is generally supposed to be a prohibition of women's preaching. I have already said what I judge necessary on this subject in the notes on 1Cor 11:5, etc., and 1Cor 14:34 (note), 1Cor 14:35 (note); to which places I beg leave to refer the reader.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:8-15

Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith, without doubting, and without…

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1 Timothy 2:11 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

γυνὴgunēA womanG1135
ἐνeninG1722
ἡσυχίᾳhēsuchiaquietnessG2271
μανθανέτωmanthanetōshould learnG3129
ἐνeninG1722
πάσῃpasēallG3956
ὑποταγῇ·hupotagēasubmissiveness;G5292

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Timothy 2:11

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

    Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

  • Ephesians 5:22-24

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

  • 1 Corinthians 11:3

    But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

  • Colossians 3:18

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

  • 1 Peter 3:5-6

    For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

  • Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  • Titus 2:5

    To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

  • 1 Peter 3:1

    Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

  • Esther 1:20

    And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ge 3:16; Es 1:20; 1Co 11:3; 14:34,35; Eph 5:22-24; Col 3:18
1Pe 3:1,5,6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Timothy 2:10

    But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

  • 1 Timothy 2:11

    Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

  • 1 Timothy 2:12

    But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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1 Timothy 2:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		La mujer aprenda en silencio, con toda sujeción.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Que la femme apprenne dans le silence, en toute soumission;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ein Weib lerne in der Stille in aller Unterwürfigkeit.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Mulier in silentio discat cum omni subjectione.