Strong's Concordance
baros: weight
Original Word: βάρος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: baros
Phonetic Spelling: (bar'-os)
Short Definition: a weight, burden
Definition: a weight, burden, lit. or met.
HELPS Word-studies
922 báros – properly, a weight; (figuratively) real substance (what has value, significance), i.e. carries personal and eternal significance.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 922: βάροςβάρος,
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,
Revelation 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
Matthew 20:12, or that which a person bears, as in
Galatians 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 Corinthians 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 Thessalonians 2:7(6) (so also in Greek writings; cf. Wesseling on
Diodorus Siculus 4, 61; (examples in
Suidas under the word)). (Synonyms: see
ὄγκος.)
