ἀβαρής
abarḗs · G4 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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not being financially burdensome
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἀβαρής ‘to be light in weight,’ not occurring in the NT) Pertaining to not being financially burdensome to anyone
Examples2 Corinthians 11:9 and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brothers came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τηρέωto keep, to obey, to guard 2
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not being financially burdensome57.225
- This adjective denotes being no financial burden to others, as in 2 Corinthians 11:9's statement that Paul kept himself from being a burden to the Corinthians and would continue to do so.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ές (βάρος weight), without weight, light; tropically, not burdensome: ἀβαρῆ ὑμῖν,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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