Strong's #926: barus (pronounced bar-ooce')

from the same as 922; weighty, i.e. (fig) burdensome, grave:--grievous, heavy, weightier.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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barus

1) heavy in weight

2) metaphorically

2a) burdensome

2b) severe, stern

2c) weighty

2c1) of great moment

2d) violent, cruel, unsparing

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from the same as G922

Citing in TDNT: 1:556, 95

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Matthew 23:4: "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay"
Matthew 23:23: "and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,"
Acts 20:29: "after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,"
Acts 25:7: "and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which"
2 Corinthians 10:10: "For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but"
1 John 5:3: "commandments are not grievous."