Meaning
"forbearance, patience, longsuffering" (makros, "long," thumos, "temper"), is usually rendered "longsuffering," Rom 2:4, Rom 9:22, 2Co 6:6, Gal 5:22, Eph 4:2, Col 1:11, Col 3:12, 1Ti 1:16, 2Ti 3:10, 2Ti 4:2, 1Pe 3:20, 2Pe 3:15; "patience" in Heb 6:12, Jam 5:10. See PATIENCE, and Note under FORBEAR.
akin to A, "to be patient, longsuffering, to bear with," lit., "to be long-tempered," is rendered by the verb "to be longsuffering" in Luk 18:7, RV (AV, "bear long"); in 1Th 5:14, RV (AV, "be patient"); so in Jam 1:5-8; in 2Pe 3:9, AV and RV, "is longsuffering. See BEAR, No. 14, ENDURE, PATIENT, SUFFER.
Note: "Longsuffering is that quality of self-restraint in the face of provocation which does not hastily retaliate or promptly punish; it is the opposite of anger, and is associated with mercy, and is used of God, Exo 34:6 (Sept.); Rom 2:4, 1Pe 3:20. Patience is the quality that does not surrender to circumstances or succumb under trial; it is the opposite of despondency and is associated with hope, 1Th 1:3; it is not used of God." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, pp. 183,184.]
