πάθημα pathēma

Greek word for “suffering” · Strong’s G3804 · used 16 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

πάθημα, -τος, τό; (πάσχω), like πάθος;

How it is translated

Glosses given for pathēma in context, with how often each is used:

• sufferings 13
• passions 2
• suffering 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 1 (3), Hebrews 2 (2), 1 Peter 5 (2), Romans 7 (1), Romans 8 (1), Galatians 5 (1), Philippians 3 (1), Colossians 1 (1), 2 Timothy 3 (1), Hebrews 10 (1)

Forms

• παθημάτων 7
• παθήματα 4
• παθήμασιν 4
• πάθημα 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pathēma more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• δόξα doxa “glory” 6
• παράκλησις paraklēsis “encouragement” 3
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 4
• κοινωνός koinōnos “participant” 2
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 3
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 3
• ἐνεργέω energeō “be active” 2
• ἀποκαλύπτω apokaluptō “to reveal” 2
• σωτηρία sōtēria “salvation” 2
• χαίρω chairō “to rejoice” 2
• καιρός kairos “time/right time” 2
• παρακαλέω parakaleō “to plead/comfort” 2

Key verses

The verses using pathēma that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 7:5 — For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Galatians 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Philippians 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
• Colossians 1:24 — Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• 2 Timothy 3:11 — Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
• Hebrews 2:9 — But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should…
• Hebrews 2:10 — For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect…
• Hebrews 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
• 1 Peter 1:11 — Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory…
• 1 Peter 4:13 — But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
• 1 Peter 5:1 — The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be…
• 1 Peter 5:9 — Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.