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would be inappropriate; but the “burden” of a transgressor is
, “heavy.”
Contrast
in Gal. 6:2, with
in v. 5.
3.
(
, 1117), from a root
/
, signifying “full, or heavy,” seen in
,
“to be full,”
, “to fill,” Lat.
, “to groan,” denotes “the lading of freight of a
ship,” Acts 21:3, or “merchandise conveyed in a ship,” and so “merchandise in general,”
Rev. 18:11-12. See
MERCHANDISE
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$!
, 916), akin to A, No. 1, is used of the effect of drowsiness, “were
heavy,” Matt. 26:43; Mark 14:40; Luke 9:32; of the effects of gluttony, Luke 21:34
(“overcharged”); of the believer’s present physical state in the body, 2 Cor. 5:4; of
persecution, 2 Cor. 1:8; of a charge upon material resources, 1 Tim. 5:16 (
RV
). See
CHARGE
,
HEAVY
,
PRESS
.¶
2.
(
# $!
, 1912), , “upon” (intensive), “to burden heavily,” is said of
material resources, 1 Thess. 2:9 (
RV
); 2 Thess. 3:8,
RV
, “burden,”
KJV
, “be chargeable to”,
of the effect of spiritual admonition and discipline, 2 Cor. 2:5,
RV
, “press heavily,”
KJV
,
“overcharge.” See
CHARGEABLE
,
PRESS
.¶
3.
(
$!
, 2599), “to weigh down” (
, “down”), “overload,” is
used of material charges, in 2 Cor. 12:16.¶
4.
(
$
1
, 2655), “to be a burden, to be burdensome,” primarily
signifies “to be numbed or torpid, to grow stiff” (
is the “torpedo or cramp fish,”
which benumbs anyone who touches it); hence, “to be idle to the detriment of another
person” (like a useless limb), 2 Cor. 11:9; 12:13-14. See
CHARGEABLE
.¶
Note:
For
, “distress, affliction,” “burdened (
KJV
of 2 Cor. 8:13), see
AFFLICTION
, B. No. 4.
C. Adjective.
(
$)
, 4), “without weight” (a,) negative, and
, “see” A, No. 1), is
used in 2 Cor. 11:9, lit. “I kept myself burdensomeless.”¶
BURIAL, BURY, BURYING
A. Nouns.
1.
(
#
, 1780), lit. “an entombing” (from , “in,”
, “a
tomb”), “burying,” occurs in Mark 14:8; John 12:7. Cf. B.1.¶
2.
(
)
, 5027), “a burial” (cf. No. 1, and Eng., “epitaph”), is found in Matt.
27:7, with
, “unto,” lit. “with a view to a buriai (place) for strangers.”¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
#
1
, 1779), see A, No. 1, “to prepare a body for burial,” is used
of any provision for this purpose, Matt. 26:12; John 19:40.¶
2.
(
1
, 2290) occurs in Matt. 8:21-22, and parallels in Luke; Matt. 14:12;
Luke 16:22; Acts 2:29; 5:6, 9-10; of Christ’s “burial,” 1 Cor. 15:4.¶