Maleleel, pr. name, indecl., Lk. 3:37*

soft; soft to the touch, delicate, Mt. 11:8; Lk. 7:25; met. an instrument of unnatural lust, effeminate, 1 Cor. 6:9*

softness; listlessness, indisposition, weakness, infirmity of body, Mt. 4:23; 9:35; 10:1*

of long duration; long-lived, Eph. 6:3*

long;, of space, far, distant, remote, Lk. 15:13; 19:12; of time, of long duration, Mk. 12:40; Lk. 20:47*

patiently, Acts 26:3*

patience; patient enduring of evil, fortitude, Col. 1:11; Col. 3:12; 1 Tim. 1:16; 1 Pet. 3:20; slowness of avenging injuries, long-suffering, forbearance, clemency, Rom. 2:4; 9:22; 2 Cor. 6:6; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:2; 2 Tim. 4:2; Jas.

to be slow towards, be long-enduring; to exercise patience, be long-suffering, clement, or indulgent, to forbear, Mt. 18:26, 29; 1 Cor. 13:4; 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Pet.

far off, at a distance, from afar, from a distance, Mk. 8:3; 11:13; preceded by ἀπό, in the same sense, Mt. 26:58

far, far off, at a distance, far distant, Mt. 8:30; Mk. 12:34; met. οἱ μακράν, remote, alien, Eph. 2:13, 17; so οἱ εἰς μακράν, Acts 2:39