Gloss
burdensome, heavy, important; savage, fierce
Forms of the word
Dictionary
βαρύς, εῖα, ύ
Greek transliteration
barys
Simplified transliteration
barys
Numbers
Strong's number
926
GK Number
987
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
6
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-2b
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for βαρύς
| Matthew 23:4 | For they tie up heavy (barea | βαρέα | acc pl neut) burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. |
| Matthew 23:23 | “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier (barytera | βαρύτερα | acc pl neut comparative) matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the former. |
| Acts 20:29 | I know that there will come to you after my departure savage (bareis | βαρεῖς | nom pl masc) wolves, not sparing the flock. |
| Acts 25:7 | When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious (barea | βαρέα | acc pl neut) charges against him, which they were not able to prove. |
| 2 Corinthians 10:10 | For some are saying, “His letters are weighty (bareiai | βαρεῖαι | nom pl fem) and forceful, but his physical presence is weak, and his rhetoric amounts to nothing.” |
| 1 John 5:3 | For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome (bareiai | βαρεῖαι | nom pl fem), |
