pathēma · suffering, passion

What it means

pathēma (πάθημα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “suffering, passion”.

Suffering, what one has to endure; also a passion or desire.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one has to endure.
2. A desire that takes control of someone.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sufferings ×12
• passions ×2
• suffering ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×2
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Galatians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 Peter×4

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

• Romans 8:18

  For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

• 2 Corinthians 1:5

  For just as the sufferings of the Messiah overflow to us, so through the Messiah our comfort also overflows.

• 2 Corinthians 1:6

  If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is at work in perseverance in the same sufferings that we also suffer.

• 2 Corinthians 1:7

  And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are partners in the sufferings, so also you are in the comfort.

• Galatians 5:24

  And those of the Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

• Philippians 3:10

  to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

• Colossians 1:24

  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of the Messiah for the sake of his body, which is the assembly,

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra, what persecutions I endured; and the Lord rescued me from all of them.

• Hebrews 2:9

  But we see the one who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that apart from God he might taste death for everyone.

• Hebrews 2:10

  For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the founder of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• Hebrews 10:32

  But remember the earlier days in which, after you had been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings,

• 1 Peter 1:11

  inquiring into what person or what kind of time the Spirit of the Messiah in them was indicating when he testified beforehand to the sufferings for the Messiah and the glories after these things.

• 1 Peter 4:13

  but insofar as you share in the sufferings of the Messiah, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice with great gladness.

• 1 Peter 5:1

  So I exhort the elders among you, I the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and sharer in the glory that is about to be revealed:

• 1 Peter 5:9

  Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being accomplished in your brotherhood in the world.