Makrothymia means “longsuffering” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3115 — yokebed (“Jochebed”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3115 μακροθυμία (makrothumia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. makrothumia (mak-roth-oo-mee'-ah) n. 1. longanimity 2. (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude It has 19 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include longsuffering, patience, and forbearance. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
makrothumia (mak-roth-oo-mee'-ah) n. 1. longanimity 2. (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude [from a compound of G3117 and G2372] KJV: longsuffering, patience Root(s): G3117, G2372 See also: G3116
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3115. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
patience
Usage: μακροθυμία, -ας, ἡ (μακρό-θυμος), [in LXX: Pro.25:15 (אַף אֹרֶךְ), Jer.15:15 (אַף אָרֵךְ) Isa.57:15, Sir.5:11, 1Ma.8:4 * ;], patience, longsuffering: of men, esp. in experiencing troubles and difficulties, Col.1:11, 2Ti.3:10, Heb.6:12, Jas.5:10; of God's forbearance, Rom.2:4 9:22, 2Co.6:6, Gal.5:22, Eph.4:2, Col.3:12, 1Ti.1:16, 2Ti.4:2, 1Pe.3:20, 2Pe.3:15.† SYN.: ὑπομονή (cf. Lft., Col., 138; Tr., Syn., liii) (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render makrothumia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3115 (μακροθυμία) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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14 indexed usages in New Testament.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the brokenhearted:
O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and that by their policy and patience they had conquered all the place, though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, till they had discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest did give them tribute every year:
Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; And with patience give answer.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3115.
Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the brokenhearted:
O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
and that by their policy and patience they had conquered all the place, though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, till they had discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest did give them tribute every year:
Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; And with patience give answer.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3115, grouped by book.
Makrothymia (Strong's G3115) is a Greek word most simply glossed "longsuffering". makrothumia (mak-roth-oo-mee'-ah) n. 1. longanimity 2. (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G3115 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3115 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as longsuffering, patience, and forbearance. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3115, with linked reader references where each row is available.