Word study · Greek

makrothymía

patience, long-suffering

Say it: mak-roth-oo-MEE-ah (approximate)

μακροθυμία

What it means

Patience. "Patience" (3:10) and "with all patience" (4:2).

Range of meaning

  • PatienceSlowness to anger.
  • Long-sufferingEnduring wrong.

In 2 Timothy

Every verse (2)

Verses where G3115 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources