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Strong's G5281 ὑπομονή (hypomone)

Hypomone means “enduring” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5281 — noomi (“Naomi”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5281
Language Greek
Linked Usages 53
Books 20

Strong's G5281 Quick Answer

Strong's G5281 ὑπομονή (hupomone) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hupomone (hoop-om-on-ay') n. 1. cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy [from G5278] It has 53 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include patience, patient, and enduring. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
hupomone (hoop-om-on-ay') n. 1. cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy [from G5278]
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
patience, patient, and enduring

Meaning and Definition

hupomone (hoop-om-on-ay') n. 1. cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy [from G5278] KJV: enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting) Root(s): G5278

Original Word
ὑπομονή
Transliteration
hupomone
Derivation
Root: ὑπομένω R1: 5278
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5281. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

perseverance

Usage: ὑπο-μονή, -ῆς, ἡ (ὑπομένω) [in LXX for מִקְוֶה and cogn. forms; frequently in 4Mac ;] __1. a remaining behind (Arist.). __2. patient enduring, endurance: Luk.8:15 21:19, Rom.5:3-4 15:4-5, 2Co.6:4 12:12, Col.1:11, 2Th.1:4, 1Ti.6:11, 2Ti.3:10, Tit.2:2, Heb.10:36, Jas.1:3-4 5:11, 2Pe.1:6, Rev.2:2-3, 19 13:10 14:12; δι᾽ ὑπομονῆς, Rom.8:25, Heb.12:1; with genitive of person(s), 2Th.3:5 (ICC, in l), Rev.3:10; with genitive of thing(s), Rom.2:7, 2Co.1:6, 1Th.1:3; before ἐν, Rev.1:9.† SYN.: see: μακροθυμία, and cf.

Hort on Jas.1:3 (AS)

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How Strong's G5281 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hupomone, 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.

patience Luke 8:15 28× patient Romans 2:7 enduring 2 Corinthians 1:6

How Strong's G5281 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 31 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5281 (ὑπομονή) appears 24 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5281 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5281 in the New Testament

31 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 8:15 KJV

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 21:19 KJV

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Romans 2:7 KJV

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Strong's G5281 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint / Brenton

for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Ezra 10:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Job 14:19 Septuagint / Brenton

The waters wear the stones, And waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.

Strong's G5281 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

4 Maccabees 1:11 Septuagint / Brenton

For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from their persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

4 Maccabees 7:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.

4 Maccabees 9:8 Septuagint / Brenton

For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5281.

1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Ezra 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Job 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The waters wear the stones, And waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.
Psalms 9:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the poor shall not be forgotten forever: The patience of the needy ones shall not perish forever.
Psalms 38:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? And my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.
Psalms 61:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; For of him is my patient hope.
Psalms 70:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, thou art my hope from my youth.
Jeremiah 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?
Jeremiah 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left thee be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.
Luke 8:15 New Testament, KJV
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke 21:19 New Testament, KJV
In your patience possess ye your souls.
Romans 2:7 New Testament, KJV
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Romans 5:3 New Testament, KJV
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Romans 5:4 New Testament, KJV
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Romans 8:25 New Testament, KJV
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans 15:4 New Testament, KJV
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans 15:5 New Testament, KJV
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
2 Corinthians 1:6 New Testament, KJV
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:4 New Testament, KJV
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 12:12 New Testament, KJV
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
Colossians 1:11 New Testament, KJV
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
1 Thessalonians 1:3 New Testament, KJV
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
2 Thessalonians 1:4 New Testament, KJV
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Thessalonians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
1 Timothy 6:11 New Testament, KJV
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
2 Timothy 3:10 New Testament, KJV
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
Titus 2:2 New Testament, KJV
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Hebrews 10:36 New Testament, KJV
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 12:1 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:3 New Testament, KJV
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:4 New Testament, KJV
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 5:11 New Testament, KJV
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
2 Peter 1:6 New Testament, KJV
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Revelation 1:9 New Testament, KJV
I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 2:2 New Testament, KJV
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Revelation 2:3 New Testament, KJV
And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Revelation 2:19 New Testament, KJV
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Revelation 3:10 New Testament, KJV
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation 13:10 New Testament, KJV
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 14:12 New Testament, KJV
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
4 Maccabees 1:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from their persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.
4 Maccabees 7:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.
4 Maccabees 9:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.
4 Maccabees 9:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured more than I, finding thy overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?
4 Maccabees 15:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!
4 Maccabees 17:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.
4 Maccabees 17:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.
4 Maccabees 17:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;
4 Maccabees 17:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
Wisdom of Sirach 2:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe unto you that have lost patience! And what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you?
Wisdom of Sirach 16:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: And the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.
Wisdom of Sirach 17:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But unto them that repent, he granted them return, And comforted those that failed in patience.
Wisdom of Sirach 41:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, And unto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, And is vexed with all things, And to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5281, grouped by book.

1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 6 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 3 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
James 3 usages, New Testament
2 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 7 usages, New Testament
4 Maccabees 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5281 FAQ

What does hypomone (ὑπομονή) mean?

Hypomone (Strong's G5281) is a Greek word most simply glossed "enduring". hupomone (hoop-om-on-ay') n. 1. cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy [from G5278]

How many times is hypomone (ὑπομονή) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's G5281 across 20 books.

Where can I study hypomone (ὑπομονή) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5281 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hypomone (ὑπομονή)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as patience, patient, and enduring. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5281 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5281, with linked reader references where each row is available.