ἀνέχομαι
to sustain
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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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 5 times (33%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 3 times (20%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G430 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 4 verses
- 2 Corinthians 11:1 ἀνείχεσθέ ἀνέχεσθέ impf mid/pass.dep ind 2pl pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 ἀνέχεσθε pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- 2 Corinthians 11:19 ἀνέχεσθε pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
- 2 Corinthians 11:20 ἀνέχεσθε pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 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.
ανεχομαι — transliterated anéchomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to sustain.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 17:17. It appears 14 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G430 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.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 4 verses 29%
- Matthew 1 verse 7%
- Mark 1 verse 7%
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 9 verses · 64%
- Gospels 3 verses · 21%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 14%
- 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: Forbearing 2×, Shall i suffer 2×, Suffer 2×
- American Standard Version: Bear 2×, Forbearing 2×, Shall i bear 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bear with 2×, Must i put up with 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bear with 3×, Bearing with 2×, It 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G430 across 17 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G430 across 17 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 G430 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G430 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 3 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.
- to hold up
- to hold one's self erect and firm
- to sustain, to bear, to endure
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G430 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνέχεσθε anéchesthe | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 11:4 | 5 |
| ἀνέξομαι anéxomai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Matthew 17:17 | 3 |
| ἀνεχόμενοι anechómenoi | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Ephesians 4:2 | 2 |
| ἀνέξονται anéxontai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 2 Timothy 4:3 | 1 |
| ἀνέχεσθέ anéchesthé | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 11:1 | 1 |
| ἀνείχεσθέ aneíchesthé | Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 11:1 | 1 |
| ἀνεσχόμην aneschómēn | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Acts 18:14 | 1 |
| ἀνεχόμεθα anechómetha | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 4:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G430, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
- ανεκτοτερος anektóteros G414 bearable
- ανεξικακος anexíkakos G420 patient
- ανοχη anochḗ G463 forbearance
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 80 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανεχομαι appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 45:1 ἀναἔχω
- 1 Kings 12:24 ἀναἔχω
- Job 6:11 ἀναἔχω
- Isaiah 1:13 ἀναἔχω
- Amos 4:7 ἀναἔχω
- Haggai 1:10 ἀναἔχω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G430) 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.
- Genesis 45:1 ἀναἔχω Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" There stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
- 1 Kings 12:24 ἀναἔχω Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
- Job 6:11 ἀναἔχω What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
- Job 6:26 ἀναἔχω Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
- Isaiah 1:13 ἀναἔχω Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.
- Isaiah 42:14 ἀναἔχω I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
- Isaiah 46:4 ἀναἔχω and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
- Isaiah 63:15 ἀναἔχω Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
- Isaiah 64:11 ἀναἔχω Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
- Amos 4:7 ἀναἔχω "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.
- Haggai 1:10 ἀναἔχω Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G430) 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.
