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παθητός

capable of suffering

‘capable of suffering’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G3805 Strong's Greek
pathētós Transliteration
/path-ay-tos'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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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.

“capable of suffering” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective παθητος (pathētós). The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Acts 26:23. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
suffer
Modern gloss
capable of suffering
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3805 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 26:23
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Acts 26:23.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%

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: Should suffer 1×
  • American Standard Version: Suffer 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Would suffer 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Would be a sufferer 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3805 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Should suffer” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3805 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Suffer” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3805 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Would suffer” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3805 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Would be a sufferer” 1×

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.

  1. passible, endued with the capacity of suffering, capable of feeling
  2. subject to the necessity of suffering, destined to suffer

Word origin

Derived from παθημα (páthēma) (G3804) — suffering.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 20:24,8

From the same as G3804 ; liable (that is doomed ) to experience pain : - suffer.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.

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