Strong G926βαρύς

weighty

Transliteration
barus
Pronunciation
bar-ooce'
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From the same as G922; weighty that is (figuratively) burdensome grave: - grievous heavy weightier.

Detailed definition

βαρύς, -εῖα, ύ,
[in LXX chiefly for כָּבֵד;]
heavy: Mat.23:4. Metaphorical, burdensome: ἐντολή, 1Jn.5:3; severe (perh. impressive): ἐπιστολή, 2Co.10:10; weighty: τὰ βαρύτερα τ. νόμου, Mat.23:23; αἰτιώματα, Act.25:7; violent, cruel (EV, grievous): λύκος, Act.20:29.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G926 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • grievous2
  • heavy1
  • shall1
  • weightier1
  • weighty1

First verses

  1. Matthew 23:4
    For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
  2. Matthew 23:23
    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
  3. Acts 20:29
    For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
  4. Acts 25:7
    And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
  5. 2 Corinthians 10:10
    For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
  6. 1 John 5:3
    For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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βᾰρύς, εῖα, ύ,
poetry genitive plural feminine βαρεῶν uncertain in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 932 (_anapaest meter_): _comparative_ βαρύτερος, _superlative_ βαρύτατος)]:— heavy in weight, β. ἀείρεσθαι, opposed to κοῦφος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.150, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 152d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 310b25, etc.: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly with collateral notion of strength and force, χεῖρα βαρεῖαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.219, compare 89; ἀκμᾷ βαρύς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).51; β. τὸ σῶμα 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Μακεδονική” 14)]; of athletes, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 31)]; ὀφρύς bushy, [Refs ([prev. work] 48)]; but also, heavy with age, infirmity or suffering, νόσῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 235; σὺν γήρᾳ [prev. author] “OT” 17; ἐν γήρᾳ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1017; ὑπὸ γήρως 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 9.1; ὑπὸ τῆς μέθης 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.596a)]; pregnant, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (PGoodsp.Cair. 15.15 (4th c.AD))]; β. βάσις heavy, slow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 966; τυπάδι βαρείᾳ [prev. author] “fragment” 844)]. adverb κοῦφον βαρέως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 189d.)]
2 heavy to bear, grievous, ἄτη, ἔρις, κακότης, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.111, 20.55, 10.72; Κλῶθες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.197; κῆρες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.548; β. κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 206 (Lyric poetry))]; βαρὺ or βαρέα στενάχειν sob heavily, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.95, 534, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.334, etc.)]: in Trag. and Prose, burdensome, grievous, oppressive, β. ξυμφορά, τύχαι, καταλλαγαί, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 1044 (Lyric poetry), “Th.” 332 (Lyric poetry), 767 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἡδονή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1204; ἀγγελία β. ἢν ἐν τοῖς βαρύτατ᾽ ἂν ἐνέγκαιμι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 43c; πόλεμος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.241; βαρὺ κοὐχὶ δίκαιον [prev. author] 21.66; νόσος)]causing disgust, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1330; αὐδά, ἠχώ, [prev. work] 208 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 791)]; unwholesome, χωρίον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.6.12; πλησμονή [prev. author] “Cyn.” 7.4)]; indigestible, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.115e; β. νότος 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.17.11.)] adverb -έως, φέρειν τι take a thing ill, suffer it impatiently, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.19; β. φέρειν ἐπί τινι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.1.1 (but β. φέρειν)] bear with dignity, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 26.3))]; β. ἔχειν, with part, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1424b5; πρός τι [prev. author] “Pol.” 1311b9)]; τοῖς λογίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Arg. Euripides Tragicus “Heracl.”)]: comparative βαρυτέρως τινὶ ἐναντιωθῆναι [LXX (LXX.3Mac.3.1)]; βαρέως ἀκούειν hear with disgust, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.9.)]
3 violent, ὀργή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 368; μῆνις [prev. author] “OC” 1328; ἀπέχθειαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23a (_superlative_))]; θυμός [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.96.)]
4 weighty, grave, ἐπιστολαί [NT (NT.2Cor.10.10; αἰτιώματα NT.Act.25.7; τὰ βαρύτερα τοῦ νόμου NT.Matt.23.23)]; ample, βαρυτάτην εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖς ἀρχομένοις παρέξειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.14.3.)]
II of persons, severe, stern, β. ἐπιτιμητής [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 77; εὔθυνος [prev. author] “Pers.” 828, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 546; Κύπρι βαρεῖα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.100)]; wearisome, troublesome, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 894, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 210c, etc.; ξύνοικος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 415, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 753; γείτονες 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.10.6.)]
II.2 overbearing, σεμνότεροι ἢ βαρύτεροι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1391a27 (but σεμνὸς καὶ β. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.1.42); ὑπερήφανοι καὶ β. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.279c)]; important, powerful, πόλις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.17.5, etc.)]
II.3 of soldiers, heavy-armed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.37 (assuming variant))]; of the ὁπλίτης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833b (_comparative_))]; τὰ β. τῶν ὅπλων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.76.3.)]
II.4 difficult, ὅρκος γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἀνδρὶ φηλήτῃ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 933.)]
III of impressions on the senses,
III.1 of sound, strong, deep, bass, opposed to to ὀξύς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.257, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 208, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 332c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1125a14, etc.; βαρὺ ἀμβόασον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 572 (Lyric poetry); φθέγγονται βαρύτατον ἀνθρώπων 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 15; βαρύτατα ὑπακούειν, of diseases, [prev. author] “Prorrh.” 2.39; πενθεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 12.1)]; especially of musical pitch, low, opposed to ὀξύς, βαρυτάτη χορδή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 268e)]; ἆχος, φωνά, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus I, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Eudemia” 1235a28, 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.3)] M.; of accent, grave, ἀντὶ ὀξείας τῆς μέσης συλλαβῆς βαρεῖαν ἐφθεγξάμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 399b; ὀξείᾳ καὶ βαρείᾳ καὶ μέσῃ φωνῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1403b30, etc.: hence ἡ βαρεῖα (i.e. προσῳδία))] accentus gravis, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 630.1, etc.; β. τάσις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 11, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 307.13; β. τόνος 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 674.13, compare 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 36.5; β. συλλαβή)]unaccented, [Refs ([prev. author] “Synt.” 100.8, +others)] adverb βαρέως with the accent thrown back, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Pron.” 51.1, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.53b: _comparative_ -ύτερον, opposed to ὀξύτερον)] (ου) opposed to οὗ), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 178a3)] (but, on a lower note, αὐλεῖν [Refs ([prev. author] “GA” 788a22).)]
III.2 of smell, strong, offensive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.119.)]
III.3 adverb βαρέως slowly, ἐπισπᾶσθαι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 26.6)]. (guṛr-u- from gu[rmacr]ṛ-u-, Sanskrit gurús 'heavy', Latin gravis (from feminine gur[schwa]wī-), Gothic kaúrus 'heavy'.)