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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.
makrothumia
Longsuffering. Literally long-tempered, the opposite of short-tempered.
Galatians 5:22, in every translation this tool compares.
He has a short fuse. English builds the idea out of a metaphor. Greek builds it out of a compound, and they mean the same thing in reverse.
Because it pairs with endurance in several lists and means something different: this one is about people, the other is about circumstances.
The King James reads longsuffering. Modern versions read patience or forbearance.
μακροθυμία makrothumia · G3115
Makros, long, plus thumos, temper or passion. Where hupomone bears up under circumstances, makrothumia holds off with people. The two often appear in the same list.
English patience covers both and so the pairing in Colossians 1:11 reads as repetition.
When two words appear side by side in a list, they are not synonyms. Lists are built out of distinctions.
Patience dominates modern versions; longsuffering is the King James rendering.
- Both nouns together at Colossians 1:11 and 2 Corinthians 6:4-6
- makrothumia of God: Romans 2:4; 2 Peter 3:15
- thumos as anger: Galatians 5:20
