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Strong's #3115: makrothumia (pronounced mak-roth-oo-mee'-ah)

from the same as 3116; longanimity, i.e. (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude:--longsuffering, patience.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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makrothumia

1) patience, endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance

2) patience, forbearance, longsuffering, slowness in avenging wrongs

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as G3116

Citing in TDNT: 4:374, 550




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Romans 2:4: "and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness"
Romans 9:22: "to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath"
2 Corinthians 6:6: "by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy"
Galatians 5:22: "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,"
Ephesians 4:2: "and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;"
Colossians 1:11: "all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;"
Colossians 3:12: "kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
1 Timothy 1:16: "Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter"
2 Timothy 3:10: "manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,"
2 Timothy 4:2: "exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."
Hebrews 6:12: "of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
James 5:10: "for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience."
1 Peter 3:20: "when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days"
2 Peter 3:15: "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as"









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