μακρόθυμος
patient, longsuffering
Where this word appears
Every passage where μακρόθυμος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 34:6 μακρόθυμος And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,
- Numbers 14:18 μακρόθυμος The Lord is longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
- Ezra 19:17 μακρόθυμος
- Psalms 7:12 μακρόθυμος If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
- Psalms 85:15 μακρόθυμος But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.
- Psalms 102:8 μακρόθυμος The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, longsuffering, and full of mercy.
- Psalms 144:8 μακρόθυμος The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy.
- Proverbs 14:29 μακρόθυμος A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.
- Proverbs 15:18 μακρόθυμος A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.
- Proverbs 15:18 μακρόθυμος A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.
- Proverbs 16:28 μακρόθυμος A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.
- Proverbs 17:27 μακρόθυμος He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.
- Ecclesiastes 7:8 μακρόθυμος for oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his noble heart.
- Joel 2:13 μακρόθυμος and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.
- Nahum 1:3 μακρόθυμος The Lord is longsuffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
About this word
About this word
μακρόθυμος (makróthymos), “patient, longsuffering,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 15 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
