barosem

Strong’sG922

a weight, burden

stem baros-6 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

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) 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.;

(b) 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. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G922 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbar'-os

compare G899); weight; in the New Testament only, figuratively, a load, abundance, authority

Fromprobably from the same as G939 (through the notion of going down;

King Jamesburden(-some), weight.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

βάρος [ᾰ], ους,
Ionic dialect εος, τό, weight, Refs 5th c.BC+
II a weight, burden, load, τέκνων Refs 5th c.BC+weights, Refs 4th c.BC+
III oppressiveness, τὸ τῆς ὀσμῆς ἀφόρητον β. LXX; βάρος φέρειν to give trouble, τινί Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV heaviness, torpor, β. ναρκῶδες Refs 5th c.BC+; βάρη καὶ δυσαρεστήματα perhaps feeling of oppression, Refs 2nd c.AD+
V metaphorically, heavy weight, σιγῆς β. Refs 5th c.BC+; βάρος πημονῆς, συμφορᾶς, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὥσπερ βάρους μεταλαμβάνειν Arist Refs 1st c.AD+: hence alone, grief, misery, Refs 5th c.BC+; of oppressive demands, β. τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων, τῶν φόρων, Refs 2nd c.BC+; οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα φέρειν τὰ β. Refs 3rd c.AD+; κουφίσαι τὰ β. Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI in good sense, abundance, πλούτου, ὄλβου, NT+5th c.BC+; strength, στρατοπέδων Refs 2nd c.BC+; β. τῆς ὑλακῆς violence of.., Refs 4th c.AD+
VII weight, influence, Refs 2nd c.BC+; gravity, dignity of character, Refs; opposed to χάρις, Refs
VIII Grammars, stress of accent, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IX in Music, ={βαρύτης}, low pitch, Refs 3rd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

burden4×burdens1×weight1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	barosem	baroseim
of, belonging to genitive	baroseu	baroseiu
to, for dative	barose1×βάρει	barosei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

barosstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

barose is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

6 occurrences, every one of them listed

barose“burden”to, fordative singular1×

1 Thessalonians 2:7“burden”dunorōntois en barose arō hōs Christou apostolois; alla genina …On the contrary, we were gentle among …

barosem4×

Matthew 20:12… autoin ni poiasa toi bastazarantoi tem barosem tau hēmerau kai ton kausōnon.… to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the …

Acts 15:28… kai ni mēdenem polloterem epitithorō vi barosem plēn houteiu teiu epanankes,… Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential …

2 Corinthians 4:17… nu kata huperbolan eis huperbolan aiōniem barosem doxau katergazotō ni,… is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond …

Revelation 2:24… legalō, ouk balamō epi vin allosem barosem;… Satan: I will place no further burden upon you

baroseim1×

Galatians 6:2allēloiu teim baroseim bastazavōr, kai houtōs anaplēravi ton nomon …Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will …