Definition

self-restraint, i.e. tolerance

Etymology

from G430 (ἀνέχομαι);

Word family

• ἀνέχομαι anéchomai

How the KJV renders it

• forbearance

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.