ἀνοχή
anochḗ · G463 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be patient with, to have patience, patience
To be patient with, in the sense of enduring possible difficulty
ExamplesRomans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and restraint and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θεόςGod 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πλοῦτοςriches, wealth 1
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
- μακροθυμία makrothymía · G3115 · patience
- Both ἀνοχή and μακροθυμία denote forbearance and restraint from judgment. μακροθυμία emphasizes the long-suffering aspect of patience (long-temper), while ἀνοχή focuses on the tolerance or holding back of punishment. They are closely synonymous in contexts of divine patience toward sinners.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חֶמְלָה chemlâh · H2551 · compassion, mercy
- ἀνοχή emphasizes restraint from judgment or punishment; חֶמְלָה denotes the act of sparing or showing compassion by withholding destructive action, a closely related Hebrew concept often used in contexts of divine forbearance.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be patient with, to have patience, patience25.171
- In Romans 2:4, Paul asks whether the hearer thinks lightly “of the riches of His kindness and restraint and patience (anochē̃s), not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance,” describing God's forbearance toward sinners.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνοχῆς, ἡ (compare ἀνέχομαι τίνος, under the word ἀνέχω, p. 45), toleration, forbearance;…
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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