Original Word: μετριοπαθέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: metriopatheó
Phonetic Spelling: (met-ree-op-ath-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I bear gently with, have compassion
Definition: I bear gently with, have compassion.

3356 metriopathéō(from metrios, "mediating," derived from metri, "an instrument for measuring" and 3806 /páthos, "feeling") – properly, to feel appropriately, i.e. with divinely-measured intensity ("God-controlled moderation").

3356 /metriopathéō ("feel with divinely-measured intensity") expresses discriminating feeling (empathy) which is not too severe or too tolerant. 3356 (metriopathéō), used only in Heb 5:2, ultimately refers to the ministry of Christ.

STRONGS NT 3356: μετριοπαθέω

μετριοπαθέω, μετριοπάθω; ((cf. Winer's Grammar, 101 (95)); from μετριοπαθής, adhering to the true measure in one's passions or emotions; ἔφη (viz., Aristotle) τόν σοφόν μή εἶναι μέν ἀπαθη, μετριοπαθη δέ, (Diogenes Laërtius 5, 31; μετριοπαθεια, moderation in passions or emotions, especially anger and grief, is opposed to the ἀπάθεια of the Stoics; from μέτριος and πάθος); equivalent to μετρίως or κατά τό μέτρον πάσχω, to be affected moderately or in due measure; to preserve moderation in the passions, especially in anger or grief (Philo de Abrah. § 44; de Josepho § 5; (Josephus, Antiquities 12, 3, 2; others)); hence, of one who is not unduly disturbed by the errors, faults, sins, of others, but bears with them gently; like other verbs of emotion (cf. Krüger, § 48, 8), with a dative of the person toward whom the feeling is exercised: Hebrews 5:2; cf. the full discussion by Bleek at the passage.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

have compassion.

From a compound of the base of metrios and pathos; to be moderate in passion, i.e. Gentle (to treat indulgently) -- have compassion.

see GREEK metrios

see GREEK pathos

Forms and Transliterations

μετριοπαθειν μετριοπαθείν μετριοπαθεῖν metriopathein metriopatheîn

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