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Strong's #1419 - δυσβάστακτος
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δῠσ-βάστακτος, ον,
intolerable, grievous to be borne, LXX Proverbs 27:3, Matthew 23:4, Plu. 2.915f, etc.; of persons, Antisth. ap. Ph. 2.449.
δυσβάστακτος, δυσβάστακτον (βαστάζω), hard (A. V. grievous) to be borne: Matthew 23:4 (T WH text omit; Tr brackets δυσβάστακτος and Luke 11:46 φορτία δυσβάστακτα, said of precepts hard to obey, and irksome. (the Sept. Proverbs 27:3; Philo, omn. prob. book § 5; Plutarch, quaest. nat. c. 16, 4, p. 915 f.)
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δυσ -βάστακτος , -ον
(< βαστάζω ),
[in LXX for H5192, Proverbs 27:3*;]
hard to be borne: Matthew 23:4 (om. WH, txt., R, mg.), Luke 11:46.†
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See for the guttural under βαστάξω above. It would seem that the compound was coined (LXX, Philo and Plutarch) when the guttural forms were coming in, so that the older alternative in -στος never took its place.
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