ὁμοιοπαθής
homoiopathḗs · G3663 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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same kinds of feelings, same kinds of desires
Pertaining to having the same kinds of feelings or desires
ExamplesActs 14:15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men, of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, to turn from these useless things to a living God, who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND EVERYTHING THAT IS IN THEM.
James 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- συμπαθής sympathḗs · G4835 · sympathetic
- Both describe shared affections/feelings, but σύμπαθος emphasizes sympathetic feeling-with-another (compassion, empathy), while ὁμοιοπαθής emphasizes being subject to the same kinds of passions/experiences (same human nature/condition). Overlap exists in the sphere of shared emotional capacity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Same kinds of feelings, same kinds of desires25.32
- Describing Elijah's humanity, James 5:17 states “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months,” where “with a nature like ours” renders this adjective.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὁμοιοπαθες (ὅμοιος, πάσχω), suffering the like with another, of like feelings or…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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