Strong G3958πάσχω

to suffer

Transliteration
paschō pathō penthō
Pronunciation
pas'-kho path'-o pen'-tho
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

Apparently a primary verb (the third form used only in certain tenses for it); to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful): - feel passion suffer vex.

Detailed definition

πάσχω
[in LXX: Amo.6:6 (חָלָה ni.), Wis.12:27, Sir.38:16, al.;]
to suffer, be acted on, as opposite to acting, often limited by a word expressive of good or evil;
__(a) of misfortunes (most frequently without any limiting word): absol., Luk.22:15 24:46, Act.1:3 3:18 17:3, 1Co.12:26, Heb.2:18 9:26 13:12, 1Pe.2:19-20 2:23 3:17 4:15 4:19; before ὑπό, with genitive, Mat.17:12; ὑπέρ, Act.9:16, Php.1:20, 2Th.1:5, 1Pe.2:21; with dative ref., 1Pe.4:1; περί, with genitive (before ὑπέρ), 1Pe.3:18; διά, with accusative, 1Pe.3:14; ὀλίγον (a little while), 1Pe.5:10; with accusative, Mat.27:19, Mrk.9:12, Luk.13:2 24:26, Act.28:5, 2Ti.1:12, Heb.5:8, Rev.2:10; παθήματα, 2Co.1:6; ταῦτα, Gal.3:4 (EV; cf. Lft., in l, but see infr.); accusative before ἀπό, Mat.16:21, Luk.9:22 17:25; ὑπό, Mrk.5:26, 1Th.2:14;
__(b) of pleasant experiences (but always with qualifying word, εὖ or accusative of thing(s)): Gal.3:4 (cf. Grimm-Thayer, see word; Interp. Corn., in l, but see supr.) (cf. προ-, συν-πάσχω).†
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In the Bible

Strong G3958 appears in 41 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • suffer37
  • feel1
  • hath1
  • he1
  • i1
  • let1
  • passion1
  • suffered1
  • that1
  • vex1
  • ye1

First verses

  1. Matthew 16:21
    From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
  2. Matthew 17:12
    But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
  3. Matthew 17:15
    Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
  4. Matthew 27:19
    When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
  5. Mark 5:26
    And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
  6. Mark 8:31
    And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  7. Mark 9:12
    And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
  8. Luke 9:22
    Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
  9. Luke 13:2
    And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
  10. Luke 17:25
    But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
  11. Luke 22:15
    And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
  12. Luke 24:26
    Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
  13. Luke 24:46
    And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
  14. Acts 1:3
    To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
  15. Acts 3:18
    But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
  16. Acts 9:16
    For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
  17. Acts 17:3
    Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
  18. Acts 28:5
    And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
  19. 1 Corinthians 12:26
    And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
  20. 2 Corinthians 1:6
    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.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πάσχω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.297, etc.)]: imperfect ἔπασχον [Refs (17.375, etc.)]: future πείσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.134, etc.)]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. singular παισεῖται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1925(5).21 (Cyrene, 3rd c.BC))]: aorist ἔπᾰθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.492, etc.)]: perfect πέπονθα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.6, etc.:)]pluperfect ἐπεπόνθειν[Refs ([prev. work] 92, etc.)]; Attic dialect ἐπεπόνθη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 198c)] (all the above tenses in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], present and aorist only in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus). —Rarer forms, _2nd pers._ _plural_)]perfect πέπασθε (so [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.99, πέποσθε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.53)]; feminine perfect participle πεπᾰθυῖα [Refs (17.555)]; Doric dialect perfect πέποσχα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 89, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 11, “PCair.Zen.” 482.18 (3rd c.BC))]:—have something done to one, suffer, opposed to do, ὅσσ᾽ ἔρξαν τ᾽ ἔπαθόν τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.490; ῥέζοντά τι καὶ παθεῖν ἔοικεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.32)]; δρᾶν καὶ πάσχειν, see at {δρά; πολλὰ μὲν.. πείσεσθαι}, πολλὰ δὲ ποιήσειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.89, etc.: hence used as)]passive of ποιέω compare [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 2a4, “Metaphorical” 1017a26, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.8, etc.), π. τι ὑπό τινος)] to be treated so and so by another, suffer it at his hands, ἃ πάσχοντες ὑφ᾽ ἑτέρων ὀργίζεσθε, ταῦτα τοὺς ἄλλους μὴ ποιεῖτε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.61, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.44, 124, +others; ἐξ ἐμοῦ μὲν ἔπαθες οἷα φῂς παθεῖν, δρᾷς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἡμᾶς εὖ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 252; οἷα πρὸς θεῶν πάσχω θεός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 92, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.36.)]
II to have something happen to one, to be or come to be in a state or case, καί τι ἔφη γελοῖον παθεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 174e; ὅπερ οἱ τὰς ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενοι πέπονθας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 846, compare “V.” 946)]; ὁρᾶτε μὴ ταὐτὸ πάθητε τῷ ἵππῳ see that it be not with you as with the horse in the fable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1393b20, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 488a)]; παραπλήσιον π. ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.27)]; ὁμοιότατον πεπονθέναι ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τις.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98c.)]
II.2 of the influence of passion or feeling, to be affected in a certain way, be (or come to be) in a certain state of mind, οἱ Καμαριναῖοι ἐπεπόνθεσαν τοιόνδε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.88, compare 1.80, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.56; ὅ τι μὲν ὑμεῖς πεπόνθατε ὑπὸ τῶν ἐμῶν κατηγόρων οὐκ οἶδα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17a, compare 21c, 22c, Alcaeus1.118b, “Smp.” 198c; π. τι πρός τινας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.42, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.11, 8.15, etc.; τι ἔς τινας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.11: sometimes with)] adjective, ὑϊκὸν πάσχει he is swinishly disposed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.30: _absolutely_, ὁ πάσχων)] the man of feeling or impulse, ὁ μὴ πάσχων the unimpassioned man, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1203b21.)]
II.3 of things, πεπόνθασι.. αἱ Ἰώνων ὁρταὶ τοῦτο this is the case with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.148)]; πάσχει δὲ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ τὰ κάρδαμα this is just the way with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 234; οἷον τὰ γράμματα πεπονθότ᾽ ἂν εἴη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 253a)]; ὁμοίως π. τῷ Νείλῳ to be in the same case with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.20.)]
II.4 Grammars, of words, to be subject to certain changes, [Refs (EM 200.11, 491.2, etc.)]; τὸ πεπονθός a modified form, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 137.16.)]
II.4.b to be passive in meaning, [Refs ([prev. author] “Synt.” 244.6, +others)]
III frequently with adverbs, κακῶς πάσχειν or παθεῖν to be in evil plight, unlucky, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.275, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.146, etc.)]; κακῶς π. ὑπό τινος to be ill used, ill treated by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1041 (_anapaest meter_); ἐκ Διὸς π. κακῶς [prev. work] 759 (but also κακὸν π. ὑ. τ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48): frequently with an)] adjective, κακά, αἰνά, λυγρὰ π[Refs 8th c.BC+ (., 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.99, 22.431, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37; ἀνάρσια πρός τινος [prev. author] 5.89: frequently in Trag., π. δύσοιστα, τάλανα, ἀμήχανα, οἰκτρά, σχέτλια, ἀνάξια, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 789 (Lyric poetry), “Th.” 988 (uncertain), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 598, “Hec.” 321, “Andr.” 1180 (uncertain), “IA” 852: also in Prose, δεινά, βίαια π., 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 51.19, 21.1, etc.)]; πρέποντα πάσχειν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (Anti-pho 3.3.9: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus also with)] substantive, ἄλγεα, κήδεα, πήματα, ἀεκήλια ἔργα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.297, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.555, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.886, 18.77)]: rarely in Attic dialect, πράγματ᾽ αἴσχιστ᾽ ἂν ἐπάθομεν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.17.)]
III.b εὖ πάσχειν to be well off, in good case, with genitive, τῶν αὑτοῦ (to be read ὧν αὐτοῦ, compare ὅς Possess.) κτεάνων εὖ πασχέμεν to have the good of, enjoy one's own, like{ἀπολαύω}, γεύομαι, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1009, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.32)]; εὖ πάσχειν receive benefits, opposed to εὖ δρᾶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 868, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40, etc.; ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἔπασχον εὖ.. χάριν δοῦναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1489; τιμᾶσθαι.. ἐν τῇ μνήμῃ τῶν εὖ πεπονθότων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.182; εὖ παθεῖν ὑπό τινων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 519d, etc.)]: also with an adjective, π. ἀγαθά [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37; τι ἐσλόν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.89, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 22.5; τερπνόν τι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 521, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.83)]; χαρτά, ὅσια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 618, “Hec.” 788)]; γλυκέα, χαρίεντα π., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 591, “Ec.” 794; δίκαια 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.10; φιλικὰ ὑπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.6.)]
III.2 without adverb, with reference to evil, used for κακῶς or κακὰπ., μάλα πόλλ᾽ ἔπαθον καὶ πόλλ᾽ ἐμόγησα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.223, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.607; εἴ κεν μάλα πολλὰ πάθοι 22.220)]; ὁτιοῦν π. suffer anything whatever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.133, etc.: _absolutely_, παθὼν δέ τε νήπιος ἔγνω)] by hard experience, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 218, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 403)]; ὁ παθών the injured parly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 730a, 878c:)] —Phrases: μή τι πάθῃς or πάθοι, lest thou, lest he suffer any ill, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.596, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.567, compare 11.470, etc.; μή τι πάθωμεν 13.52: hence εἴ τι πάθοιμι or ἤν τι πάθω)], as euphemism, if aught were to happen to me, i.e. if I were to die, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Callinus Epicus 1.17, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1105, “V.” 385, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.51, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.10; ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.11; ἐάν τινα ἀνθρώπινα πάσχῃ “IG” 3.74.13; so εἴ τι πείσεται.. ἅδε γᾶ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 244 (Lyric poetry); ἤν τι ναῦς πάθῃ [prev. author] “IT” 755, cf. Syngr. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.13.)]
III.2.b in Law, suffer punishment, pay the penalty, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.30; π. ὡς ἱερόσυλος “SIG” 1016.7 (Iasos, 4th c.BC),cf. NT.1Pet.4.15)]; ὡς προδότης καὶ ἐπιβουλεύων τῷ δήμῳ πασχέτω τι Aen.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Tact. 11.9; τιμᾶν ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν.. ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 299a (-τίνειν codices),compare “Ap.” 36b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.5, “IG” 12.65.50, etc.)]
III.3 τί πάθ; what is to become of me? ὤμοι ἐγώ, τί π.; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.404, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.465, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 216 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.24)]; sometimes what (else) am I to do? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 798)]; so especially τί γὰρ π.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 614, “Supp.” 257, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1432, etc.)]; ὡμολόγηκα· τί γὰρ π.; I allow it—how can I help it? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 302d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.118.)]
III.4 in 2nd pers. singular, τί πάσχει; what's the matter with you? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 708, “Av.” 1044)]; τί χρῆμα πάσχει; [Refs ([prev. author] “Nu.” 816)]: so in aorist participle, τί παθώ; τί παθόντε λελάσμεθα θούριδος ἀλκῆ; what possesses us that we have forgotten.. ? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.313)]; but τί παθόντες γαῖαν ἔδυτ; what befell you that you died ? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.106)]; also οὐδὲν θαυμαστὸν ἔπαθεν.. πεισθείς no wonder that he was induced, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.7.)]
III.5 to be ill, suffer, with accusative of the part affected, π. τοὺς πόδας, τὴν πλευράν, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PSI” 4.293.23 (3rd c.AD), “PGen.” 56.27 (4th c.AD): _absolutely_ in)]participle, ὁ πάσχων, almost ={ὁ κάμνων}, the patient, PMag. Par.[Refs (1.3017)]; μεταβαίνει ἀπὸ τῶν παθῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς πάσχοντας ἀνθρώπους [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.583, compare 15.501, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 45, +others)]
IV in later Stoic Philos., πάσχειν is to be acted upon by outward objects, take impressions from, them, opposed to ἀποπάσχω, mostly followed by ὅτι, to be led to suppose that.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.2.3, 1.18.1, etc.)]: also with accusative, have experience of, ἀρετήν, λόγον, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.449, 1.121.)] (Πṇθσκω, future Πένθ-σομαι, compare πένθος.)