Quick Definition
I suffer evil, endure affliction
Strong's Definition
to undergo hardship
Derivation: from the same as G2552 (κακοπάθεια);
KJV Usage: be afflicted, endure afflictions (hardness), suffer trouble
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κακοπαθέω, κακοπαθῶ; 1 aorist imperative 2 singular κακοπάθησον; (κακοπαθής); to suffer (endure) evils (hardship, troubles); to be afflicted: 2Ti_2:9; Jas_5:13 (Winers Grammar, § 41 a. 3 at the end; cf. § 60, 4 c.; Buttmann, § 139, 28) (the Sept. Jon_4:10; Xenophon, Plutarch, others); used frequently of the hardships of military service (Thucydides 4, 9; Polybius 3, 72, 5; Josephus, Antiquities 10, 11, 1; b. j. 1, 7, 4); hence, elegantly κακοπάθησον (L T Tr WH συγκακοπαθέω (T WH συν( (which see at the end)) κακοπάθησον) ὡς καλός στρατιώτης, 2Ti_2:3; 2Ti_4:5. (Compare: συγκακοπαθέω.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κακοπαθέω kakopatheō 3x
to suffer evil or afflictions, 2Ti_2:9 ; to be afflicted, troubled, dejected, Jas_5:13 ; in NT to show endurance in trials and afflictions, 2Ti_4:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κακοπαθέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX : Jon_4:10 ( H5999 ) * ;]
to suffer evil, endure Affliction: 2Ti_2:9 ; 2Ti_4:5 , Jas_5:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κακοπαθέω [page 316]
The only exx. we can quote from our sources of this verb, whose formation Thumb ( Dial. p. 373) ascribes to Ionic influence, are P Lond 98 recto .73 (i/ii A.D.) (= I. p. 130) κακοπαθήσεται καὶ ξενιτεύει , and the mantic P Ryl I. 28 .84 (iv/A.D.) ἐὰν ἅλληται (μηρὸς εὐώνυμος ), σκυλμοὺς καὶ πόνους δηλοῖ κακοπαθήσαντα δὲ εὐφρανθῆναι . See also Teles (ed. Hense) p. 61 .6 κακοπαθῶν καὶ δαπανῶν , Musonius p. 28 .9 πόσα δ᾽ αὖ κακοπαθοῦσιν ἔνιοι θηρώμενοι δόξαν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κακοπαθέω κα^κοπα^θέω, φυτ. -ήσω "to suffer ill, to be in ill plight, be in distress", Thuc. , Xen. , etc. [Etym: from κα^κοπα^θής]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κακοπαθέω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Jon.4.10 (עָמָל)* ;]
to suffer evil, endure Affliction: 2Ti.2:9 4:5, Jas.5:13.†
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