What Does Hebrews 6:15 Mean in the King James?
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The endurance before the promise is not empty delay: its Greek word pictures heat taking a long time to rise.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks into your interval between expectation and arrival: the promise can be ahead while patience marks the present. Receiving comes after the long-held stretch, and the verse names that sequence without calling the delay failure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a promise delayed is a promise withdrawn: here, receiving follows a long period of patience.
THE ROOT
μακροθυμήσας
makrothymēsas
GROWS FROM
μακρός + θυμός (Greek compound)
Long + heat or anger: to be slow to anger, patient over time.
“patiently endured” in this verse is makrothymēsas. The word joins a long stretch of time with heat that does not rise quickly. English endurance can sound like mere survival; this word also carries the sense of remaining slow to flare while the promise is still ahead.
ALSO GROWS
makrothymia: patience, forbearance
μακροθυμία
The related noun names the sustained patience present through the interval before receiving.
makrothymos: patient, slow to anger
μακρόθυμος
This related adjective describes someone whose heat rises slowly, clarifying the kind of endurance named here.
THE PATTERN
The time before a promised outcome is part of its path, with patience carried through to receiving.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.THE THREAD
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.James uses the same Greek verb, μακροθυμέω (makrothymeō), meaning to be patient or slow to anger. The farmer’s waiting shows that this patience can span the unseen interval before what is promised is received.
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