G3115

• {"n":"makrothumia","s":"Longsuffering. Literally long-tempered, the opposite of short-tempered.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=makrothumia","r":"Galatians 5:22","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads longsuffering. Modern versions read patience or forbearance."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**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."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"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."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English patience covers both and so the pairing in Colossians 1:11 reads as repetition."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When two words appear side by side in a list, they are not synonyms. Lists are built out of distinctions."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Patience dominates modern versions; longsuffering is the King James rendering."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03bc\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03af\u03b1 makrothumia \u00b7 G3115"}],"src":["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"]}