Original: πάθος

Transliteration: páthos

Phonetic: path'-os

Short Definition: Affection

- Original: πάθος

- Transliteration: Pathos

- Phonetic: path'-os

- Definition:

1. whatever befalls one, whether it be sad or joyous

a. spec. a calamity, mishap, evil, affliction

2. a feeling which the mind suffers

a. an affliction of the mind, emotion, passion

b. passionate deed

c. used by the Greeks in either a good or bad sense

d. in the NT in a bad sense, depraved passion, vile passions

- Origin: from the alternate of G3958

- TDNT entry: 20:26,8

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From the alternate of G3958; properly suffering (pathos) that is (subjectively) a passion (especially concupiscence): - (inordinate) affection lust.

Cognate: G2552, G2553, G3356, G3663, G3804, G3805, G3958, G4236, G4310, G4777, G4834, G4835, G4841