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Strong's #5413 - φορτίον
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- a burden, load
- of the freight or lading of a ship
- metaph.
- of burdensome rites
- of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a "burden" by way of the contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees, the observance of which was most oppressive
- faults of the conscience which oppress the soul
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φορτ-ίον, τό,
load, burden, freight, Sapph. Supp. 9.13 (pl.), Alc. Supp. 26.1, Ar. Pl. 352, Lys. 312, X. Mem. 3.13.6, An. 7.1.37, al., Lycurg. 96, Aq. 2 Samuel 15:33; λιβανωτικὰ φ. OGI 132.11 (Alexandria, ii B. C.); φέρων ἀνθράκων φ. Ar. Ach. 214 (lyr.); φ. βαστάζειν Teles p.10H.
2. pl., wares, merchandise, Hes. Op. 643, 693, Hdt. 1.1, 2.179, al., Ar. Ach. 899, 910, V. 1398, Ra. 573, Hyp. Ath. 6. esp. of agricultural produce, crops, PRLaws 43.14, al. (iii B. C.), PTeb. 105.24 (ii B. C.), etc.
3. of a child in the womb, X. Mem. 2.2.5; ἔρωτος f.l. in Anacr. 170.
4. metaph., μεῖζον φ. ἢ καθ' αὑτὸν αἰρόμενον taking too heavy a burden upon him, D. 11.14; μέγα τὸ φ. Antiph. 3; οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν βαρύτερον τῶν φορτίων.. γυναικός Id. 329; οὔτοι τὸ γῆράς ἐστιν.. τῶν φ. μέγιστον Anaxandr. 53; τὸ φ. μου ἐλαφρόν ἐστιν Matthew 11:30; χρυσοῦν φ., of wealth, Secund. Sent. 9. (Dim. only in form, commonly used for φόρτος in Com. and Prose; wrongly condemned as un-Attic by Moer. p.393 P., Thom.Mag. p.16R.)
φορτίον, φορτίου, τό (diminutive of φόρτος, but diminutive only in form not in significance; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii; p. 440; (Winers Grammar, § 2, 1 d. at the end)), from Hesiod down, the Sept. for מַשָׂא, a burden, load: of the freight or lading of a ship (often so in Greek writings from Hesiod, Works, 645, 695 down), Acts 27:10 G L T Tr WH. Metaphorically: of burdensome rites, plural (Matthew 23:4); Luke 11:46; of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a 'burden' by way of contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees the observance of which was most oppressive, Matthew 11:30 (αὐτός μόνος δύναται βαστάσαι Ζηνωνος φορτίον, (Diogenes Laërtius 7, 5, 4 (171); see ζυγός, 1 b.); of faults, the consciousness of which oppresses the soul, Galatians 6:5 (yet cf. Lightfoot at the passage Synonym: see ὄγκος, at the end.)
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φορτίον , -ου , τό
(dimin. of φόρτος ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4853;]
a burden, load: of the cargo of a ship (Hdt., al.), Acts 27:10; metaph., Matthew 11:30; Matthew 23:4, Luke 11:46, Galatians 6:5.†
SYN.: βάρος G922 (q.v.), ὄγκος G3591.
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";lukewarm,"; occurs in the NT only in Rev. 3:16, where WII (Notes.2, p. 157) admit a possible alternative spelling χλιερός (א*) : cf. Moulton Gr ii. p. 67.
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