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: Heb_5:2; cf. the full discussion by Bleek at the passage.

μετριοπαθέω metriopatheō 1x to moderate one s passions; to be gentle, compassionate, Heb_5:2

*† μετριοπαθέω , -ῶ ( <μετριοπαθής , moderating one's passions), to hold one's passions or emotions in restraint; hence, to bear gently with, feel gently towards: Heb_5:2 .†

μετριοπαθέω [page 406] μετριοπαθέω , feel moderately, does not occur in the LXX, and in the NT is confined to Heb_5:2 , where see Windisch s note in HZNT. For the adj. see Aristeas 256, where it is laid down that one of the elements of φιλοσοφία is τὰ πρὸς τὸν καιρὸν πράσσειν δεόντως μετριοπαθῆ καθεστῶτα , to do the duty of the moment as it should be done, practising moderation (Thackeray); cf. the new adj. μετριοφιλής in P Ryl II. 114 .3 (petition to the Prefect c. A.D. 280) τὸ μετριοφιλές σου αἰσθομένη , perceiving your love of equity (Edd.).

μετριοπαθέω μετριοπα^θέω, "to bear reasonably with", τινί NTest. [Etym: from μετριοπα^θής]

μετριοπαθέω, -ῶ (μετριοπαθής, moderating one's passions), to hold one's passions or emotions in restraint; hence, to bear gently with, feel gently towards: Heb.5:2.† (AS)