Amachos describes a non-contentious quality commended alongside gentleness in instructions for conduct.

The two attested uses present a non-contentious quality in conduct: it stands with gentleness in qualifications and in instructions about how to treat others.

1. Non-contentious conduct · dominant

   In 1 Timothy 3:3, the accusative singular masculine form occurs in a list that contrasts drunkenness and bullying with gentleness; the APB renders the surrounding sequence, “Not drunken, not a bully, but gentle, peaceable, not greedy.” In Titus 3:2, the accusative plural masculine form appears in instructions not to speak evil of anyone and to show gentleness toward all people; the APB renders, “To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, to be gentle, showing all gentleness toward all people.”

   1 Timothy 3:3Titus 3:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “peaceable” in both cited verses, but it is a whole-verse translation and does not mark the lemma's individual English correspondence.