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Name of God’s Son

ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΗΣΗ, μακροθυμηση

MAKROTHYMĒSĒ, makrothymēsē

Sounds Like: mah-kroh-thy-MEE-see

Translations: patience, endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, steadfastness

From the root: ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the quality of patience, endurance, or long-suffering. It describes a state of mind that is slow to anger or resentment, even in the face of provocation or difficulty. It implies a steadfastness in waiting or enduring without giving up hope or becoming irritable. It is often used in a moral or theological sense to describe God's patience with humanity or the patience expected of believers.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3115 (Lookup on BibleHub)

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Codex Sinaiticus

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

  • ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙ — (to) longsuffering, (to) patience, (to) endurance, (in) longsuffering, (in) patience, (in) endurance, (by) longsuffering, (by) patience, (by) endurance
  • ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙΑ — patience, longsuffering, endurance, a patience, a longsuffering, an endurance
  • ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙΑΝ — patience, long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, a patience, a long-suffering
  • ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΙΑΣ — of patience, of endurance, of long-suffering, of forbearance

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