Strong’s G3804 · Greek

πάθημα
páthēma

Definition

something undergone, i.e. hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence

Etymology

from a presumed derivative of G3806 (πάθος);

Where the KJV renders it

  • affection
  • affliction
  • motion
  • suffering

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.