Lexicon
πάσχω
paschō
G3958
G:V Greek

to suffer

42
Occurrences
14
Books
Greek
Language

Pascho describes undergoing hardship, adverse treatment, injury, or other painful experience in the biblical passages where it occurs.

The occurrences consistently describe undergoing adverse experience: Christ’s foretold suffering, believers’ hardship and unjust treatment, bodily distress, and even the absence of harm after danger. The surrounding clauses specify the kind of adversity rather than establishing separate lexical meanings.

Senses in use

  1. Undergoing hardship, harm, or adverse treatment · dominant

    The verb covers adverse experiences in varied settings: in 1 Peter 2:20 the present participle πάσχοντες identifies those who do good yet endure suffering, while in Mark 5:26 the aorist participle παθοῦσα occurs of a woman who had endured much under physicians. In Acts 28:5, ἔπαθεν is negated in the statement that he suffered no harm, and in Acts 17:3 the aorist infinitive παθεῖν stands in the claim that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the verb with forms of “suffer,” including “suffered” and “suffering,” while Acts 28:5 has “suffered no harm” and 1 Peter 2:19 says “endures griefs while suffering unjustly.” These are verse-level renderings definitions.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture