πάθημα
pathēma (G3804)
suffering
AI Word Study
The Greek word πάθημα (pathēma) is defined as suffering. This term is used a total of 16 times in the Bible, making it a significant component of the linguistic and conceptual landscape of the text. The word πάθημα encompasses a range of experiences including pain, hardship, and adversity. It is often associated with the idea of undergoing some form of affliction or distress, which can be physical, emotional, or spiritual in nature. In biblical contexts, πάθημα may refer to suffering inflicted by external forces, such as punishment or persecution, or to the internal struggles and trials that individuals face in their lives. The frequency and diversity of πάθημα's occurrences suggest its importance in the biblical narrative, highlighting the reality of suffering as a universal human experience. The text does not shy away from depicting suffering as a part of life, but instead invites readers to engage with its complexities and depths, encouraging them to consider the nature and significance of human experience in the face of adversity.
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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.