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Suffering

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G2552, G3804, G3805, G6217, G20704, H4251
Hebrew
מַחֲלוּי · machluy
Greek
κακοπάθεια · kakopatheia

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κακοπάθεια

G2552
Transliteration
kakopatheia
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

suffering, suffering affliction

Lexicon definition

κακοπάθεια (WH, -θία), -ας, ἡ (κακοπαθής, suffering), [in LXX: Mal.1:13 (תְּלָאָה), תְּלָאָה), 2Ma.2:26-27, 4Ma.9:8 * ;] distress, affliction: Jas.5:10.† (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

πάθημα

G3804
Transliteration
pathēma
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-N
Indexed occurrences
16

Glosses

suffering, affection, affliction, motion, suffering

Lexicon definition

πάθημα, -τος, τό (πάσχω), like πάθος, __1. that which befalls one, a suffering, affliction: pl., Rom.8:18, 2Co.1:6-7, Col.1:24, 2Ti.3:11, Heb.2:10 10:32, 1Pe.5:9; of Christ's sufferings: τὰ εἰς Χ., 1Pe.1:11; τ. Χριστσῦ, 1Pe.5:1; id. as shared by Christians, 2Co.1:5, Php.3:10, 1Pe.4:13. __2. a passive emotion, affection, passion: Gal.5:24; τ. ἀμαρτιῶν, Rom.7:5 __3. = τὸ πάσχειν, an enduring or suffering: with genitive obj., Heb.2:9.† SYN.: see: πάθος (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

παθητός

G3805
Transliteration
pathētos
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:A
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

suffering, suffer

Lexicon definition

παθητός, -ή, -όν (πάσχω), __1. one who has suffered. __2. subject to suffering (R, mg., see M, Pr., 222) or destined to suffer (AV, R, txt.): Act.26:23.† (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀλγηδών

G6217
Transliteration
algēdōn
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

suffering

Lexicon definition

1. a sense of pain, pain, suffering , (Herdotus Historicus), etc. 2. of mind, pain, grief , (Sophocles Tragicus), etc. (ML)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

μεριζομένως

G20704
Transliteration
merizomenōs
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

suffering

Lexicon definition

suffering

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Κακοπάθεια

G2552
Transliteration
kakopátheia
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

suffering affliction

Lexicon definition

a state of suffering, affliction, trouble; in N.T., enduraance in affliction, Ja. 5.10.

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Πάθημα

G3804
Transliteration
páthēma
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
16

Glosses

affection, affliction, motion, suffering

Lexicon definition

what is suffered; suffering, affliction, Ro. 8.18. 2 Co. 1.5, 6, 7. Ph. 3.10, et al.; emotion, passion, Ro. 7.5. Ga. 5.24.

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Παθητός

G3805
Transliteration
pathētós
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

suffer

Lexicon definition

passible, capable of suffering, liable to suffer; in N.T., destined to suffer, Ac. 26.23.

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

תְּלָאָה

H8513
Transliteration
tᵉlâʼâh
Pronunciation
tel-aw-aw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
5

Glosses

travail, travel, trouble.

Lexicon definition

distress

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Suffering

Indexed occurrences: 26

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Strong's Concordance

Sufferings

Indexed occurrences: 14

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SUFFERING

Nave’s Topical Bible references for SUFFERING.

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Agony

Contest; wrestling; severe struggling with pain and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It is only used in the New Testament by Luke (22:44) to describe our Lord's fearful struggle in Gethsemane. The verb from which the noun "agony" is derived is used to denote an earnest endeavour or striving, as "Strive [agonize] to enter" (Luke 13:24); "Then would my servants fight" [agonize] (John 18:36). Comp. 1 Cor. 9:25; Col. 1:29; 4:12; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7, where the words "striveth," "labour," "conflict," "fight," are the renderings of the same Greek verb.

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Eternal death

The miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt. 25:46; Mark 3:29; Heb. 6:2; 2 Thess. 1:9; Matt. 18:8; 25:41; Jude 1:7). The Scripture as clearly teaches the unending duration of the penal sufferings of the lost as the "everlasting life," the "eternal life" of the righteous. The same Greek words in the New Testament (aion, aionios, aidios) are used to express (1) the eternal existence of God (1 Tim. 1:17; Rom. 1:20; 16:26); (2) of Christ (Rev. 1:18); (3) of the Holy Ghost (Heb. 9:14); and (4) the eternal duration of the sufferings of the lost (Matt. 25:46; Jude 1:6). Their condition after casting off the mortal body is spoken of in these expressive words: "Fire that shall not be quenched" (Mark 9:45, 46), "fire unquenchable" (Luke 3:17), "the worm that never dies," the "bottomless pit" (Rev. 9:1), "the smoke of their torment ascending up for ever and ever" (Rev. 14:10, 11). The idea that the "second death" (Rev. 20:14) is in the case of the wicked their absolute destruction, their annihilation, has not the slightest support from Scripture, which always represents their future as one of conscious suffering enduring for ever. The supposition that God will ultimately secure the repentance and restoration of all sinners is equally unscriptural. There is not the slightest trace in all the Scriptures of any such restoration. Sufferings of themselves have no tendency to purify the soul from sin or impart spiritual life. The atoning death of Christ and the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit are the only means of divine appointment for bringing men to repentance. Now in the case of them that perish these means have been rejected, and "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins" (Heb. 10:26, 27).

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Example

Of Christ (1 Pet. 2:21; John 13:15); of pastors to their flocks (Phil. 3:17; 2 Thess. 3:9; 1 Tim. 4:12; 1 Pet. 5:3); of the Jews as a warning (Heb. 4:11); of the prophets as suffering affliction (James 5:10).

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Passion

Only once found, in Acts 1:3, meaning suffering, referring to the sufferings of our Lord.

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Tooth

One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" =famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" =children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2).

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Tribulation

Trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut. 4:30; Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Matt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.

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Wormwood

Heb. la'anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. In Amos 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock" (R.V., "wormwood"). In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse (Rev. 8:10, 11) a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood. The name by which the Greeks designated it, absinthion, means "undrinkable." The absinthe of France is distilled from a species of this plant. The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it.

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