brachuos

Strong’sG1024

short, little

stem brachu-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.

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 little3×briefly1×for a little while1×

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	brachuos	brachuas	brachuem4×βραχὺ	brachuois	brachuais	brachueim
object accusative	brachuon	brachuan		brachuoin	brachuain
direct address vocative	brachuor	brachuar		brachuoir	brachuair
of, belonging to genitive	brachuou	brachuau	brachueu	brachuoiu1×βραχέων	brachuaiu	brachueiu
to, for dative	brachuo	brachua	brachue	brachuoi	brachuai	brachuei

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

brachustem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

brachu 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

Words built on the same stem

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

brachu — βραχύ, short, little

Where it appears

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

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

brachuem“a little”subject or objectdirect singular4×

Luke 22:58“a little”kai meta brachuem heteros horarantos auton fēate; Kai sis …… short time later, someone else saw him and said, “You also are one …

John 6:7“a little”… artois ouk arkalō autoi hina hekastos brachuem tinem labateia.… denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small …

Acts 5:34“for a little while”… timios panto to lao, keleuata exō brachuem toin anthrōpoin poiara,… honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a …

Acts 27:28kai bolizarantois heuriskala orguiain eikosi, brachuem de diastēarantois kai palin bolizarantois heuriskala …… water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of …

brachuoiu“briefly”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Hebrews 13:22… logou tau paraklēsiau, kai gar dia brachuoiu epistelama vi.… I have only written to you briefly.