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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
hupomone
Endurance. The word is built on staying under a weight, not on waiting quietly.
Romans 5:3, in every translation this tool compares.
He stood up under it. That is a posture, not a mood. English has the idea and uses a phrase rather than a noun.
Because patience in English suggests waiting without complaint, and the Greek noun is about bearing up under pressure that is actually on you.
The King James reads patience. Modern versions mostly read endurance or perseverance.
ὑπομονή hupomone · G5281
Hupomone is hupo, under, plus meno, to remain. It is active, not passive, and is usually paired with suffering or pressure rather than with delay.
English patience drifted toward temperament. Endurance is closer and sounds athletic rather than moral.
Compound words tell you their own meaning if you take them apart, as long as you check the result against how the word is actually used.
Endurance and perseverance are the majority renderings in modern versions; patience is the King James rendering.
- hupomone with suffering: Romans 5:3-4; James 1:3-4; Revelation 13:10
- Distinguish makrothumia, slowness to anger
- meno, to remain, at John 15:4
