Plowing James #14

Conference Summer of 2023

On the board:

James 1:4-5

 

Patience – G5281

1. Steadfastness, constancy, endurance

a) in the NT the characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his deliberate

purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings

b) patiently, and steadfastly

2. a patient, steadfast waiting for

3. a patient enduring, sustaining, perseverance

Part of Speech: noun feminine

From 5278 verb

Cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy : enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting)

1. to remain a) to tarry behind

2. to remain, I.e. abide, not recede or flee

a) to preserve: under misfortunes and trials to hold fast to one’s faith in Christ

b) to endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments

From G5259 and G3306; to stay under (behind), that is, remain; fig. to undergo,

that is, bear (trials), have fortitude, preserve:- abide, endure, (take) patient (-ly, suffer, tarry behind)

 

Rom 2:7

Luk 8:15, 21:19

Rom 5:3-4, 8:25, 15:4-5

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