noun · masculine
onkos
Greekὄγκος (onkos)
Strong’sG3591
a weight, burden
stem onk-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
* ὄγκος, -ου, ὁ,
SYN.: βάρος, a weight; 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 G3591 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidong'-kos
a mass (as bending or bulging by its load), i.e. burden (hindrance)
Fromprobably from the same as G43;
King Jamesweight.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | onkos | onkois |
| object accusative | onkon1×ὄγκον | onkoin |
| direct address vocative | onkor | onkoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | onkou | onkoiu |
| to, for dative | onko | onkoi |
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
onko 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
onkon“weight”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 12:1“weight”Toigaroun kai nis, tosoutem echarōtois perikeierōtem ni nefem marturoiu, onkon apotitheratois panton kai tan euperistatan hamartan, dia hupomonau trechaneiō ton prokeierōton ni agōnon,Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.