brachu

Strong’sG1024

short, little

stem brachu-2 times in the New Testament

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.

βραχύς, -εῖα, -ύ,

[in LXX chiefly for מְעַט;]

short;

(a) of time; short, little: βραχύ, Ac 5:34; μετὰ β., Lk 22:58; β. τι, a short time, He 2:7, 9 RV, mg.;

(b) of distance: Ac 27:28;

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1024 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbrakh-ooce'

short (of time, place, quantity, or number)

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesfew words, little (space, while).

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

βρᾰχύς, εῖα
(Ionic dialect έα Refs 5th c.BC+, ύ, dative plural βραχέοις Refs:—short,
1 of Space and Time, β. οἶμος, ὁδός, Refs 5th c.BC+; [αἰών] probably in Refs 5th c.BC+; μῦθος, λόγος, Refs; ἐν βραχεῖ (Ionic dialect βραχέϊ) in a short time, Refs 5th c.BC+; βραχὺ τῃδὶ μεταστῶμεν for a moment, Refs; of distance, β. ἀπόδοσις short return in ballplay, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸ βραχέος lamb.Refs: comparative, ἡ φάλαγξ -υτέρα ἐγένετο ἀναδιπλουμένη Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb βραχέως, [πολέμους] ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλους ἐπιφέρειν scantily, seldom, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of Size, short, small, μορφάν β. Refs 5th c.BC+; βραχὺς ἐξικέσθαι θεῶν ἕδραν too puny to reach..,Refs 5th c.BC+; β. τεῖχος a low wall, Refs 5th c.BC+; βραχύ μοι στόμα πάντ᾽ ἀναγήσασθαι my mouth is too small to.., Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ β. προϊών little by little, Refs 5th c.BC+; παρὰ βραχύ scarcely, hardly, φυγεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁλὸς βραχύ a small quantity of salt, Bilabel Ὀψαρτ.Refs
3 of Number, few, ἐν βραχεῖ in few words, Refs 5th c.BC+; so διὰ βραχέων in few words, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb βραχέως, ἀπολογεῖσθαι briefly, in few words, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of Value or Importance, of persons, humble, insignificant, Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, petty, trifling, ἀρχὴ β. ἐλπίδος Refs 5th c.BC+; β. τις ἀσάφεια a slight obscurity, Refs 2nd c.AD+; λυπεῖν τινὰ βραχύ, opposed to μέγ᾽ εὑρεῖν κέρδος, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, βραχὺ φροντίζειν τινός think lightly of, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 short, of vowels or syllables, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ β. προσῳδία the sign ?~X, Refs 2nd c.AD+. (Cf. Avest. m[schwa]r[schwa]zu- 'short', Gothic gamaurgjan 'shorten', Latin brevis.)

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.

a little1×for a short time1×

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

Biblang forms

The full set of forms for this word is not on the site yet. Every occurrence below shows the form it takes there.

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

brachuos — βραχύς, short, little

Where it appears

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

brachu2×

Hebrews 2:7elattasa auton brachu tinem para angeloin, doxa kai tima …You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned …

Hebrews 2:9“for a short time”ton de brachu tinem para angeloin elattorēnton blepanō Iēsun …But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned …