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Strong's #922: baros (pronounced bar'-os)

probably from the same as 939 (through the notion of going down; compare 899); weight; in the New Testament only, figuratively, a load, abundance, authority:--burden(-some), weight.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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baros

1) heaviness, weight, burden, trouble

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: probably from the same as G939 (through the notion of going down; compare G899)

Citing in TDNT: 1:553, 95




Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Matthew 20:12: "unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day."
Acts 15:28: "upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;"
2 Corinthians 4:17: "for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
Galatians 6:2: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law"
1 Thessalonians 2:6: "others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ."
Revelation 2:24: "you none other burden."









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