Word

ἐπιβαρέω

epibaréō · G1912 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to burden, to be a financial burden to

To be a financial burden to someone by requiring too much support

Examples
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship: it was by working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated (infinitive) 2
Not stated: I 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

σύyou 2

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 1 groups

μήnot 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόςto, toward, with 4

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

καταναρκάω katanarkáō · G2655 · to burden, to be a financial burden to: The target term and καταναρκάω (“to grow utterly torpid, to be a financial burden”) share the specific sense of being a financial burden to someone; the etymological images differ — torpor versus weight — but both denote the same specialized concept of burdening another financially, particularly in discussions of ministry support.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To burden, to be a financial burden to57.224: This verb describes imposing a financial or material burden on someone, used of Paul's reminder to the Thessalonians of his labor and hardship, working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of them — "our labor and hardship: it was by working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you" (1 Thessalonians 2:9), and of his declaration that he and his companions did not eat anyone's bread without paying for it, working so as not to be burdensome — "nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any" (2 Thessalonians 3:8).

Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βάρος báros · G922 · hardship, burden, tremendous · 6×βαρέω baréō · G916 · to be burdened, to be troubled, to be sound asleep · 6×βαρύς barýs · G926 · heavy, burdensome, troublous · 6×ἐπιβαρέωepibaréō · G1912βαρέως baréōs · G917 · to be slow to understand, to be mentally dull · 2×ἀβαρής abarḗs · G4 · not being financially burdensome · 1×βαρύνω barýnō · G925 · to burden · 1×βαρύτιμος barýtimos · G927 · valuable, expensive · 1×καταβαρέω katabaréō · G2599 · to overburden · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπιβαρῶ; 1 aorist infinitive ἐπιβαρῆσαί; to put a burden upon, to load (cf. ἐπί, D. 3);…

ἐπιβαρῶ; 1 aorist infinitive ἐπιβαρῆσαί; to put a burden upon, to load (cf. ἐπί, D. 3); tropically, to be burdensome; so in the N. T.: τινα, 1 Thess 2:9; 2 Thess 3:8; absolutely, ἵνα μή ἐπιβαρῶ 'that I press not too heavily' i. e. lest I give pain by too severe language, 2 Cor 2:5. (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Appian.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Be a Financial Burden3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0