ὑπομονή: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ὑπομονῆς, ἡ ([[ὑπομένω]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[steadfastness]], [[constancy]], [[endurance]] (Vulg. in sustinentia, in sufferentia); in the N. T. the [[characteristic]] of a [[man]] [[who]] is unswerved from his [[deliberate]] [[purpose]] and his [[loyalty]] to [[faith]] and [[piety]] by [[even]] the greatest trials and sufferings: Winer's Grammar, § 30,1at the [[end]]): [[τοῦ]] ἔργου ἀγαθοῦ, τῆς ἐλπίδος, Buttmann, 155 (136)); δἰ ὑπομονῆς ([[with]] [[patience]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 51,1b.) i. e.) [[patiently]] and [[steadfastly]], a [[patient]], [[steadfast]] [[waiting]] for; (others [[question]] [[this]] [[sense]] in the New Testament, and [[render]] the genitive by 'characterizing', 'in [[respect]] to', etc.): Χριστοῦ (genitive of the [[object]]), the [[return]] of Christ from [[heaven]], L T Tr WH ἐν Ἰησοῦ ([[which]] is in Jesus)); מִקְוֶה, [[expectation]], [[hope]], 2Esdr. 10:2; תִּקְוָה, [[hope]], Ps. ( תּוחֶלֶת, Symm.; ὑπομένειν τινα, [[Xenophon]], an. 4,1, 21; Appendix,<br /><b class="num">b.</b> 104:5,81).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[patient]] [[enduring]], sustaining: τῶν παθημάτων, λύπης, [[Plato]], [[definition]], p. 412c.; θανάτου, [[Plutarch]], Pelop. 1). (Synonym: [[see]] [[μακροθυμία]], at the [[end]].)