μακροθυμέω
to be patient
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3114 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Peter
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to be patient” is the headline sense of the Greek verb μακροθυμεω (makrothyméō). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 18:26. It appears 9 verses across 7 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. It shares a root with μακροθυμως and μακροθυμια. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3114 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 33%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be patient 2×, Have patience 2×
- American Standard Version: Have patience 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be patient 3×, Have patience 2×, Is patient 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Have patience 2×, Is patient 2×, Wait patiently 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3114 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3114 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3114 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3114 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be of a long spirit, not to lose heart
Word origin
Derived from μακροθυμως (makrothymṓs) (G3116) — patiently.
From the same as G3116 ; to be long spirited that is (objectively) forbearing or (subjectively) patient : - bear (suffer) long be longsuffering have (long) patience be patient patiently endure.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G3114 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μακροθυμεῖ makrothymeî | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 18:7 | 3 |
| μακροθύμησον makrothýmēson | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 18:26 | 2 |
| Μακροθυμήσατε Makrothymḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | James 5:7 | 1 |
| μακροθυμήσας makrothymḗsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 6:15 | 1 |
| μακροθυμήσατε makrothymḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | James 5:8 | 1 |
| μακροθυμεῖτε makrothymeîte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Thessalonians 5:14 | 1 |
| μακροθυμῶν makrothymō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | James 5:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3114, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μακροθυμεω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 7:16 μακροθυμέω
- Proverbs 19:11 μακροθυμέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3114) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 7:16 μακροθυμέω I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
- Proverbs 19:11 μακροθυμέω The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3114) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
