- Transliteration: Pathos

- Phonetic: path'-os

- Definition:

1. whatever befalls one, whether it be sad or joyous

a. spec. a calamity, mishap, evil, affliction

2. a feeling which the mind suffers

a. an affliction of the mind, emotion, passion

b. passionate deed

c. used by the Greeks in either a good or bad sense

d. in the NT in a bad sense, depraved passion, vile passions

- Origin: from the alternate of G3958" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3958

- TDNT entry: 20:26,8

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From the alternate of G3958" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3958; properly suffering (pathos) that is (subjectively) a passion (especially concupiscence): - (inordinate) affection lust.