ὑπομονή
endurance
also: steadfastness, constancy fuller range ↓
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
- 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 11 times (34%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 9 times (28%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 8 times (25%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 32 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5281 appears — 31 distinct verses across 13 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.
Luke 2 verses
Romans 6 verses
- Romans 2:7 ὑπομονὴν n acc sg fem to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- Romans 5:3 ὑπομονὴν n acc sg fem Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
- Romans 5:4 ὑπομονὴ n nom sg fem and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
- Romans 8:25 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
- Romans 15:4 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Romans 15:5 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 ὑπομονῇ n dat sg fem 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 6:4 ὑπομονῇ n dat sg fem but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
- 2 Corinthians 12:12 ὑπομονῇ n dat sg fem Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
Colossians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 1:4 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:5 ὑπομονὴν n acc sg fem May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
1 Timothy 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 10:36 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
- Hebrews 12:1 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 3 verses
- James 1:3 ὑπομονήν n acc sg fem knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
- James 1:4 ὑπομονὴ n nom sg fem Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- James 5:11 ὑπομονὴν n acc sg fem Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 7 verses
- Revelation 1:9 ὑπομονῇ n dat sg fem I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 2:2 ὑπομονήν n acc sg fem "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
- Revelation 2:3 ὑπομονὴν n acc sg fem You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
- Revelation 2:19 ὑπομονήν n acc sg fem I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
- Revelation 3:10 ὑπομονῆς n gen sg fem Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
- Revelation 13:10 ὑπομονὴ n nom sg fem If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
- Revelation 14:12 ὑπομονὴ n nom sg fem Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
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.
“endurance” is the headline sense of the Greek noun υπομονη (hypomonḗ). Translators differ — “patience” in the King James Version, then “perseverance” (Berean Standard Bible) and “endurance” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 31 verses across 13 books, a moderately common footprint. First canonically at Luke 8:15, it enters the text early. Not a single-sense word, it carries 3 senses, among them “steadfastness” and “constancy”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5281 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 →
- 31
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 31 distinct verses.
- 13 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
- #438
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 438 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 31 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 7 verses 23%
- Romans 6 verses 19%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 10%
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 31 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 16 verses · 52%
- Johannine 7 verses · 23%
- Revelation 7 verses · 23%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 13%
- Gospels 2 verses · 6%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 6%
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: Patience 29×
- American Standard Version: Patience 28×, Stedfastness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Perseverance 19×, Endurance 5×, Patient endurance 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Endurance 29×, Patience 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5281 across 32 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 G5281 across 32 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5281 across 32 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5281 across 32 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.
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.
- steadfastness, constancy, endurance
- a patient, steadfast waiting for
- a patient enduring, sustaining, perseverance
Word origin
Derived from υπομενω (hypoménō) (G5278) — to endure.
From G5278 ; cheerful (or hopeful) endurance constancy : - enduring patience patient continuance (waiting).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5281 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπομονῇ hypomonē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 8:15 | 9 |
| ὑπομονῆς hypomonē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 8:25 | 8 |
| ὑπομονὴν hypomonḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 2:7 | 6 |
| ὑπομονήν hypomonḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 6:11 | 5 |
| ὑπομονὴ hypomonḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 5:4 | 4 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπομονη appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 5 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 ὑπομονή
- Ezra 10:2 ὑπομονή
- Job 14:19 ὑπομονή
- Psalms 9:19 ὑπομονή
- Jeremiah 14:8 ὑπομονή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5281) 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.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 ὑπομονή For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
- Ezra 10:2 ὑπομονή Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
- Job 14:19 ὑπομονή The waters wear the stones; The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of man.
- Psalms 9:19 ὑπομονή Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
- Psalms 38:8 ὑπομονή I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
- Psalms 61:6 ὑπομονή You will prolong the king's life; His years shall be for generations.
- Psalms 70:5 ὑπομονή But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
- Jeremiah 14:8 ὑπομονή You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
- Jeremiah 17:13 ὑπομονή Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5281) 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.
