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Strong's G922 · Greek

βάρος

baros · bar'-os

probably from the same as 939 (through the notion of going down; compare 899); weight; in the New Testament only, figuratively, a load, abundance, authority


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

βάρος (G922)

6 βάρος , -εος, τό , [in LXX: Jg 18:21 ( כּבד ), Jth 7:4 , Si 13:2 , II Mac 9:10 , III Mac 5:47 *;] weight ; a weight , burden , lit. and metaph.: Mt 20:12 , Ac 15:28 , II Co 4:17 , Re 2:24 ; ἀλλήλων τὰ β. , one another's faults , Ga 6:2 ; ἐν β. , burdensome : I Th 2:6 , R, txt., but v. infr.; in late Gk. (Soph., Lex. , s.v.), dignity , authority : ἐν βάρει , I Th 2:6 (R, mg.; v. Milligan, ICG , in l.).† SYN. : ὄγκος , an encumbrance ; φορτίον , a burden , that which is borne.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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