Lexicon barus: heavy Original Word: βαρύς, εῖα, ύPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: barus Phonetic Spelling: (bar-ooce') Short Definition: heavy, weighty, burdensome Definition: heavy, weighty, burdensome, lit. and met; violent, oppressive. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 926 barýs – (an adjective, also used substantively) – properly, heavy (weighty); (figuratively) what is grievous (burdensome), pressing down on a person with oppressive force. Such a grievous burden makes a person unable to function (enjoy free movement). See 922 (baros). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionheavy NASB Translationburdensome (1), heavy (1), savage (1), serious (1), weightier provisions (1), weighty (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 926: βαρύςβαρύς, βαρεῖα, βαρύ, heavy; 1. properly, i. e. heavy in weight: φορτίον, Matthew 23:4 (in 11:30 we have the opposite, ἐλαφρόν). 2. metaphorically, a. burdensome: ἐντολή, the keeping of which is grievous, 1 John 5:3. b. severe, stern: ἐπιστολή, 2 Corinthians 10:10 (others, imposing, impressive, cf. Wetstein at the passage). c. weighty, i. e. of great moment: τά βαρύτερα τοῦ νόμου the weightier precepts of the law, Matthew 23:23; αἰτιάματα (better αἰτιώματα (which see)), Acts 25:7. d. violent, cruel, unsparing (A. V. grievous): λύκοι, Acts 20:29 (so also Homer, Iliad 1:89; Xenophon, Ages. 11, 12).
Strong's grievous, heavy, burdensome From the same as baros; weighty, i.e. (fig) burdensome, grave -- grievous, heavy, weightier. see GREEK baros |
