adjective
baruos
Strong’sG926
heavy, weighty, burdensome
stem baru-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 26 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.
βαρύς, -εῖα, ύ,
[in LXX chiefly for כָּבֵד;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G926 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbar-ooce'
weighty, i.e. (fig) burdensome, grave
Fromfrom the same as G922;
King Jamesgrievous, heavy, weightier.
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
poetry genitive plural feminine βαρεῶν uncertain in Refs 4th c.BC+:— heavy in weight, β. ἀείρεσθαι, opposed to κοῦφος, Refs 8th c.BC+ mostly with collateral notion of strength and force, χεῖρα βαρεῖαν Refs 8th c.BC+; of athletes, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὀφρύς bushy, Refs; but also, heavy with age, infirmity or suffering, νόσῳ Refs 5th c.BC+; pregnant, Refs 4th c.AD+; β. βάσις heavy, slow, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb κοῦφον βαρέως Refs 5th c.BC+
2 heavy to bear, grievous, ἄτη, ἔρις, κακότης, Refs 8th c.BC+; βαρὺ or βαρέα στενάχειν sob heavily, Refs 8th c.BC+: in Trag. and Prose, burdensome, grievous, oppressive, β. ξυμφορά, τύχαι, καταλλαγαί, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+causing disgust, Refs 5th c.BC+; unwholesome, χωρίον Refs 5th c.BC+; indigestible, Refs 2nd c.AD+ adverb -έως, φέρειν τι take a thing ill, suffer it impatiently, Refs 5th c.BC+ bear with dignity, Refs 1st c.BC+; β. ἔχειν, with part, Refs 4th c.BC+; τοῖς λογίοις Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative βαρυτέρως τινὶ ἐναντιωθῆναι LXX; βαρέως ἀκούειν hear with disgust, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 violent, ὀργή Refs 5th c.BC+; θυμός Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 weighty, grave, ἐπιστολαί NT; ample, βαρυτάτην εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖς ἀρχομένοις παρέξειν Refs 2nd c.AD+
II of persons, severe, stern, β. ἐπιτιμητής Refs 5th c.BC+; wearisome, troublesome, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 overbearing, σεμνότεροι ἢ βαρύτεροι Refs 4th c.BC+; important, powerful, πόλις Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3 of soldiers, heavy-armed, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the ὁπλίτης Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ β. τῶν ὅπλων Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.4 difficult, ὅρκος γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἀνδρὶ φηλήτῃ β. Refs 5th c.BC+
III of impressions on the senses,
III.1 of sound, strong, deep, bass, opposed to to ὀξύς, Refs 8th c.BC+; especially of musical pitch, low, opposed to ὀξύς, βαρυτάτη χορδή Refs 5th c.BC+; ἆχος, φωνά, Refs 4th c.BC+ M.; of accent, grave, ἀντὶ ὀξείας τῆς μέσης συλλαβῆς βαρεῖαν ἐφθεγξάμεθα Refs 5th c.BC+ accentus gravis, Refs 2nd c.BC+unaccented, Refs adverb βαρέως with the accent thrown back, Refs 2nd c.AD+ (ου) opposed to οὗ), Refs 4th c.BC+ (but, on a lower note, αὐλεῖν Refs
III.2 of smell, strong, offensive, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 adverb βαρέως slowly, ἐπισπᾶσθαι Refs 2nd c.BC+. (guṛr-u- from gu[rmacr]ṛ-u-, Sanskrit gurús 'heavy', Latin gravis (from feminine gur[schwa]wī-), Gothic kaúrus 'heavy'.)
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.
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | baruos | baruas | baruem | baruois1×βαρεῖς | baruais2×βαρεῖαι | barueim2×βαρέα |
| object accusative | baruon | baruan | baruoin | baruain | ||
| direct address vocative | baruor | baruar | baruoir | baruair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | baruou | baruau | barueu | baruoiu | baruaiu | barueiu |
| to, for dative | baruo | barua | barue | baruoi | baruai | baruei |
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
baru 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
baruois“savage”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 20:29… eisercheli meta tan afixian mu lukois baruois eis vin mē feidorōntois teu poimnieu,I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you …
baruais“weighty”subjectnominative plural2×
2 Corinthians 10:10hoti Tais epistolais men, fēatō, baruais kai ischurais, tas de parousias teu …For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence …
1 John 5:3… autou tēraneiō, kai tais entolais autou baruais ouk alō,… commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
barueim“heavy”subject or objectdirect plural2×
Matthew 23:4desmeualō de fortieim barueim kai epitithalō epi toin ōmosoin toiu …They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on …
Acts 25:7… apo Hierosolumeiu katabainarēntois Ioudaiois, polleim kai barueim aitiōmeim kataferarōntois heim ouk ischuale apodeikara,… Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.
baruotereim1×
Matthew 23:23… kai tem kuminem, kai afiēkava teim baruotereim tou nomou, tan krisian kai tem …… cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy …