μακροθυμία
patience
also: endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (29%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (29%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 4 times (29%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3115 appears — 14 distinct verses across 11 books. 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.
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 2:4 μακροθυμίας n gen sg fem Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Romans 9:22 μακροθυμίᾳ n dat sg fem What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:11 μακροθυμίαν n acc sg fem strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Colossians 3:12 μακροθυμίαν n acc sg fem Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
1 Timothy 1 verse
2 Timothy 2 verses
Hebrews 1 verse
James 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
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.
At its core, μακροθυμια (makrothymía) means “patience.” First canonically at Romans 2:4, it enters the text early. It appears 14 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “endurance”, “constancy”, and “steadfastness”. It shares a root with μακροθυμως and μακροθυμεω. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3115 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 2 verses 14%
- Colossians 2 verses 14%
- 2 Timothy 2 verses 14%
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 14 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 71%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 21%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 7%
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: Longsuffering 12×, Patience 2×
- American Standard Version: Longsuffering 11×, Patience 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Patience 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Patience 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3115 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3115 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3115 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3115 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- patience, endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance
- patience, forbearance, longsuffering, slowness in avenging wrongs
Word origin
Derived from μακροθυμως (makrothymṓs) (G3116) — patiently.
From the same as G3116 ; longanimity that is (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude : - longsuffering patience.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3115 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μακροθυμίαν makrothymían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Colossians 1:11 | 4 |
| μακροθυμίας makrothymías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 2:4 | 4 |
| μακροθυμίᾳ makrothymía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 9:22 | 4 |
| μακροθυμία makrothymía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Galatians 5:22 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3115, 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 μακροθυμια appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 3 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 25:15 μακροθυμία
- Isaiah 57:15 μακροθυμία
- Jeremiah 15:15 μακροθυμία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3115) 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.
- Proverbs 25:15 μακροθυμία By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
- Isaiah 57:15 μακροθυμία For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Jeremiah 15:15 μακροθυμία Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3115) 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.
