James 5:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακροθυμήσατε καὶ ὑμεῖς· στηρίξατε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν: ὅτι ἡ παρουσία τοῦ Κυρίου ἤγγικεν.

Transliteration

Makrothymēsate also you; stērixate the kardias of you: because the parousia tou Kyriou ēngiken.

Grammar Details

• *Makrothymēsate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - be patient
• also you: nominative, 2nd plural - you also
• *stērixate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - strengthen/establish
• *kardias*: accusative, feminine, plural - hearts
• *parousia*: nominative, feminine, singular - coming/arrival
• *tou Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Lord
• *ēngiken*: perfect active, 3rd singular - has drawn near

Word Meanings

• *Makrothymēsate*: be patient/longsuffering/enduring
• *stērixate*: strengthen/establish/make firm
• *kardias*: hearts (figurative for inner resolve/will)
• *parousia*: coming/arrival/presence
• *ēngiken*: has drawn near/approached/is at hand (perfect tense indicating completed action with present results)

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
• Ps 130:5 : 5 I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope.
• Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
• Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, And let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.
• Ps 37:7 : 7 Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
• Ps 40:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.
• Heb 10:25-37 : 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith {G1722} he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. {G3004} {G2962} And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; 33 partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used. 34 For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took {G3326} joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves {G1722} {G3772} a better possession and an abiding one. 35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. 37 For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
• Jas 5:9 : 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
• Rev 22:20 : 20 He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: {G3483} come, Lord Jesus.
• Gen 49:18 : 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus {G5547} with all his saints.
• 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
• Lam 3:25-26 : 25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
• Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
• Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
• Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
• Rom 13:11-12 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is {G2257} salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,