βαρύς
barýs · G926 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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heavy, burdensome
Pertaining to being relatively heavy
ExamplesMatthew 23:4 “And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger.
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burdensome, troublous
Pertaining to that which is difficult in view of its being burdensome
Examples1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
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important, significant
Pertaining to being important in view of substantive character
ExamplesMatthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Acts 25:7 After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many, and serious, charges against him which they could not prove,
2 Corinthians 10:10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”
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fierce, vicious, cruel
Pertaining to one who is vicious and cruel
ExamplesActs 20:29 “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἔλεοςmercy 1
- κρίσιςjudgment 1
- πίστιςfaith, trust, faithfulness 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐντολήcommandment 1
- ἐπιστολήletter 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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In the other Testament 3 words
- כָּבֵד kâbêd · H3515 · heavy, "heavy of tongue" > difficult language
- Hebrew כָּבֵד and Greek βαρύς share the core semantic field of weightiness with figurative extensions to burdensome/severe; the LXX regularly renders כָּבֵד with βαρύς across contexts involving heavy physical loads, oppressive burdens, and severe judgments, reflecting direct translation equivalence in both literal and metaphorical registers.
- כָּבַד kâbad · H3513 · to be heavy, to be burdensome
- Hebrew כָּבַד (kâbad, H3513) encompasses a broader semantic range including 'heavy/weighty' (literal and figurative), 'honor/glorify,' and 'severe/grievous,' while Greek βαρύς (barýs, G926) focuses specifically on the 'weighty/burdensome/grave' sense without the honor/glory component, making it a natural target for כָּבַד (kâbad, H3513)'s weight-related senses in LXX translation.
- כֹּבֶד kôbed · H3514 · heaviness, abundance
- כֹּבֶד (kôbed, H3514) is the Hebrew cognate denoting physical or metaphorical heaviness/weightiness, forming a direct cross-linguistic equivalent to βαρύς (barýs, G926) in LXX translation contexts where both express burdensomeness or gravity.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Fierce, vicious, cruel20.7
- Used of predatory, harmful people, as of the savage wolves Paul warns will come in after his departure in Acts 20:29.
- Burdensome, troublous22.30
- Used of heavy demands placed on others, as of the heavy burdens the scribes and Pharisees tie up and lay on people in Matthew 23:4.
- Important, significant65.55
- Used of matters carrying substantial weight, as of the weightier provisions of the Law in Matthew 23:23.
- Heavy, burdensome86.1
- Used of forceful or imposing character, as of Paul's letters described as weighty and strong in 2 Corinthians 10:10 and the serious charges brought against him in Acts 25:7.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βαρεῖα, βαρύ, heavy; 1. properly, i. e. heavy in weight: φορτίον, Mt 23:4 (in 11:30 we…
1. properly, i. e. heavy in weight: φορτίον, Mt 23:4 (in 11:30 we have the opposite, ἐλαφρόν).
2. metaphorically,
a. burdensome: ἐντολή, the keeping of which is grievous, 1 Jn 5:3.
b. severe, stern: ἐπιστολή, 2 Cor 10:10 (others, imposing, impressive, cf. Wetstein at the passage).
c. weighty, i. e. of great moment: τά βαρύτερα τοῦ νόμου the weightier precepts of the law, Mt 23:23; αἰτιάματα (better αἰτιώματα (which see)), Acts 25:7.
d. violent, cruel, unsparing (A. V. grievous): λύκοι, Acts 20:29 (so also Homer, Iliad 1:89; Xenophon, Ages. 11, 12).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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