noun · feminine
anochas
Strong’sG463
forbearance
stem anoch-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀνοχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἀνέχω, -ομαι), [in LXX: I Mac 12:25 (RV, respite)*;]
SYN.: μακροθυμία, ὑπομονή. ἀ., forbearance, is the result and expression of μ., which involves the idea of tolerance, long-suffering, as God with sinners. ὑ. expresses patience with respect to things, as μ. with persons; it is active as well as passive, denotes not merely endurance but perseverance (v. Tr., Syn., § liii; Lft., Notes, 259, 273; DB, ii, 47).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G463 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidan-okh-ay'
self-restraint, i.e. tolerance
Fromfrom G430;
King Jamesforbearance.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
holding back, stopping, especially of hostilities: hence mostly in plural, armistice, truce, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀνοχὰς ποιεῖσθαι Canon Laws texts cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; compare ἀνοκωχή.
2 time, opportunity, οὐκ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἀνοχὴν ἐμβατεῦσαιLXX; ἡμερῶν ἀ. delay of some days, Refs 3rd c.AD+
3 plural, ἀνοχαί, = Latin feriae, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 ἀνοχαὶδικῶν, = Latin iustitium, Refs
II (ἀνέχομαι) long-suffering, forbearance, NT
II.2 ἀνοχὴν ἀναπαύλης διδόναι permission to rest, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 relief from disease, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III ={ἀνατολή}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | anochas | anochais |
| object accusative | anochan | anochain |
| direct address vocative | anochar | anochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | anochau1×ἀνοχῆς | anochaiu |
| to, for dative | anocha1×ἀνοχῇ | anochai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
anocha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
anochau“forbearance”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Romans 2:4“forbearance”… ploutou tau chrēstotau autou kai tau anochau kai tau makrothumiau katafronasō, agnoarōntos hoti …… you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness …
anocha“forbearance”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 3:26“forbearance”en ta anocha tou theou, pros tan endeixian tau …… this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.