πάθημα
suffering
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 7 times (44%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter 4 times (25%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 3 times (19%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (6%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3804 appears — 16 distinct verses across 8 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 7:5 παθήματα n nom pl neut For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
- Romans 8:18 παθήματα n nom pl neut For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:5 παθήματα n nom pl neut For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 παθημάτων n gen pl neut But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- 2 Corinthians 1:7 παθημάτων n gen pl neut Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
Galatians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 2:9 πάθημα n acc sg neut But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
- Hebrews 2:10 παθημάτων n gen pl neut For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
- Hebrews 10:32 παθημάτων n gen pl neut But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
1 Peter 4 verses
- 1 Peter 1:11 παθήματα n acc pl neut searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
- 1 Peter 4:13 παθήμασιν n dat pl neut But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy.
- 1 Peter 5:1 παθημάτων n gen pl neut I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
- 1 Peter 5:9 παθημάτων n gen pl neut Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
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, παθημα (páthēma) means “suffering.” Scripture first uses it in Romans 7:5. Spanning 16 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in 1 Peter (25% of all occurrences). Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3804 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Peter 4 verses 25%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 19%
- Hebrews 3 verses 19%
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 16 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 9 verses · 56%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 25%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 19%
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: Sufferings 10×, Afflictions 3×
- American Standard Version: Sufferings 11×, Passions 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sufferings 10×, Passions 2×, Suffering 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sufferings 13×, Passions 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3804 across 16 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3804 across 17 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3804 across 16 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 G3804 across 19 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 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.
- that which one suffers or has suffered
- an enduring, undergoing, suffering
Word origin
Derived from παθος (páthos) (G3806) — experience.
From a presumed derivative of G3806 ; something undergone that is hardship or pain ; subjectively an emotion or influence : - affection affliction motion suffering.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3804 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παθημάτων pathēmátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 1:6 | 7 |
| παθήματα pathḗmata | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Romans 7:5 | 4 |
| παθήμασιν pathḗmasin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Galatians 5:24 | 4 |
| πάθημα páthēma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 2:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3804, 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.
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