Word

ὑπομονή

hypomonḗ · G5281 · Greek · 32 occurrences

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Meanings

endurance, being able to endure

Capacity to continue to bear up under difficult circumstances

Examples
Luke 8:15 “But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
Luke 21:19 “By your endurance you will gain your lives.
Romans 2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life;

How it’s used In 7 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

12 occurrences in 8 groups

σύyou 5
ἅγιοςholy 2
ἐγώI, we 1
ἐλπίςhope 1
ἔργονwork, deed 1
ἸώβJob 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πολύςmany 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔχωto have 1

What is done to itIt is the object

8 occurrences in 5 groups

εἴδωto know 3
κατεργάζομαιto work out, to produce 2
ἀκούωto hear 1
ἔχωto have 1
μνημονεύωto remember, to recall, to think about again 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ὧδεhere 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 5 groups

ἐνin 11
διάthrough 5
εἰςto 3
κατάaccording to, against, down 2
ὑπέρfor 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

θεόςGod 1
λόγοςword, saying, message 1
χρείαneed 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

προσκαρτέρησις proskartérēsis · G4343 · to devote oneself to, to keep on, to persist in: The two nouns denote related but distinguishable kinds of persistence: ὑπομονή centers on patient endurance under trial or affliction, while προσκαρτέρησις denotes active devotion to a continued practice, such as steadfastness in prayer. Both are genuine expressions of the broader concept of perseverance, differentiated by whether the persistence is passive endurance or active continuation.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Endurance, being able to endure25.174: Romans 5:3 says believers celebrate in tribulations, knowing that “tribulation brings about perseverance”.

Word family 27 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑπομονῆς, ἡ (ὑπομένω); 1. steadfastness, constancy, endurance (Vulg. in 1 Thess…

ὑπομονῆς, ἡ (ὑπομένω);
1. steadfastness, constancy, endurance (Vulg. in 1 Thess 1:3sustinentia, in Jas 5:11sufferentia); in the N. T. the characteristic of a man who is unswerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings: Lk 8:15; Lk 21:19; Rom 5:3; Rom 15:4; 2 Cor 6:4; 2 Cor 12:12; Col 1:11; 2 Thess 1:4; 1 Tim 6:11; 2 Tim 3:10; Tit 2:2; Heb 10:36; Jas 1:3; Jas 5:11; 2 Pet 1:6; Rev 2:2f, 19; Rev 13:10; Rev 14:12 (cf. 4 Macc. 1:11; 9:8, 30; 15:30(27); 4 Macc. 17:4,12,23>); with a genitive of the thing persevered in (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 1 at the end): τοῦ ἔργου ἀγαθοῦ, Rom 2:7; τῆς ἐλπίδος, 1 Thess 1:3 (cf. Buttmann, 155 (136)); δἰ ὑπομονῆς (with patience (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 51, 1 b.) i. e.) patiently and steadfastly, Rom 8:25; Heb 12:1.
2. a patient, steadfast waiting for; (others question this sense in the New Testament, and render the genitive by 'characterizing', 'in respect to', etc.): Χριστοῦ (genitive of the object), the return of Christ from heaven, 2 Thess 3:5; Rev 1:9 (where L T Tr WH ἐν Ἰησοῦ (which is in Jesus)); (cf. Ps 38:8; for מִקְוֶה, expectation, hope, 2 Esdr. 10:2; Jer 14:8; Jer 17:13; for תִּקְוָה, hope, Ps. (); (); (); (Job 14:19); for תּוחֶלֶת, Prov 10:28 Symm.; ὑπομένειν τινα, Xenophon, an. 4, 1, 21; Appendix,
b. 104:5, 81).
3. a patient enduring, sustaining: τῶν παθημάτων, 2 Cor 1:6 (λύπης, Plato, definition, p. 412 c.; θανάτου, Plutarch, Pelop. 1). (Synonym: see μακροθυμία, at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Patience, Endurance, Perseverance32 occurrences

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