Lexical Summary pathos: that which befalls one, a passion, a suffering Original Word: πάθοςTransliteration: pathos Phonetic Spelling: (path'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: that which befalls one, a passion, a suffering Meaning: that which befalls one, a passion, a suffering Strong's Concordance inordinate affection, lust. From the alternate of pascho; properly, suffering ("pathos"), i.e. (subjectively) a passion (especially concupiscence) -- (inordinate) affection, lust. see GREEK pascho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3806: πάθοςπάθος, πάθους, τό (παθεῖν, πάσχω), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; equivalent to πάθημα (which see; (the latter differs from πάθος (if at all) only in being the more individualizing and concrete term; cf. Schmidt, Synonym, chapter 24 § 11)); 1. whatever befalls one, whether it be sad or joyous; specifically, a calamity, mishap, evil, affliction. 2. a feeling which the mind suffers, an affection of the mind, emotion, passion; passionate desire; used by the Greeks in either a good or a bad sense (cf. Aristotle, eth. Nic. 2, 4 (cf. Cope, Introduction to Aristotles Rhet., p. 133f; and his note on rhet. 2, 22, 16)). In the N. T. in a bad sense, depraved passion: Colossians 3:5; πάθη ἀτιμίας, vile passions, Romans 1:26 (see ἀτιμία); ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας (in the passion of lust), genitive of apposit. (Winer's Grammar, § 59, 8 a.), 1 Thessalonians 4:5. |
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