Word

βάρος

báros · G922 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

hardship, burden

Hardship which is regarded as particularly burdensome and exhausting

Examples
Matthew 20:12 saying, ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day’s work and the scorching heat.’
Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
tremendous, very great

A high point on a scale of extent and often implying importance and value

Examples
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

δόξαglory 1
ἡμέραday 1
ἀλλήλωνeach other, one another 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 3 groups

αἰώνιοςeternal 1
ἄλλοςother, another 1
μηδείςno one 1

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 4 groups

βαστάζωto carry, to bear 2
ἐπιτίθημιto lay on, to put on 1
κατεργάζομαιto work out, to produce 1
βάλλωto throw, to put 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin 1

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

φορτίον phortíon · G5413 · load, burden, cargo (as of a ship): Both denote burdens or loads, with βάρος emphasizing weight or heaviness (literal or figurative) and φορτίον denoting a carried load or assigned task, making them near synonyms in contexts of burden-bearing.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Hardship, burden22.4: Used of a difficult load imposed on someone, as of the burden of the day's work in Matthew 20:12 and the burden the apostles decide not to impose beyond the essentials in Acts 15:28.
To insist on one’s worth, to claim one’s importance65.56: Used of Paul and his companions asserting their own weight of authority as apostles, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the entries around it.
Tremendous, very great78.23: Used as an intensifier of glory, as of the eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison produced by momentary affliction in 2 Corinthians 4:17.

Word family 9 words

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

βάροςbáros · G922βαρέω baréō · G916 · to be burdened, to be troubled, to be sound asleep · 6×βαρύς barýs · G926 · heavy, burdensome, troublous · 6×ἐπιβαρέω epibaréō · G1912 · to burden, to be a financial burden to · 3×βαρέως 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 βαρέος, τό, heaviness, weight, burden, trouble: load, ἐπιτιθεναι τίνι (Xenophon, oec. 17,…

βαρέος, τό, heaviness, weight, burden, trouble: load, ἐπιτιθεναι τίνι (Xenophon, oec. 17, 9), to impose upon one cult requirements, Acts 15:28; βάλλειν ἐπί τινα, Rev 2:24 (where the meaning is, 'I put upon you no other injunction which it might be difficult to observe'; cf. Düsterdieck at the passage); βαστάζειν τό βάρος τίνος, i. e. either the burden of a thing, as τό βάρος τῆς ἡμέρας the wearisome labor of the day Mt 20:12, or that which a person bears, as in Gal 6:2 (where used of troublesome moral faults; the meaning is, 'bear one another's faults'). αἰώνιον βάρος δόξης a weight of glory never to cease, i. e. vast and transcendent glory (blessedness), 2 Cor 4:17; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3; (πλούτου, Plutarch, Alex. M. 48). weight equivalent to authority: ἐν βαρεῖ εἶναι to have authority and influence, 1 Thess 2:7(6) (so also in Greek writings; cf. Wesseling on Diodorus Siculus 4, 61; (examples in Suidas under the word)). (Synonyms: see ὄγκος.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Trouble, Hardship, Distress5 occurrences Much, Little [Positive-Negative Degree]1 occurrence

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