kum´bẽr, (καταργέω, katargéō, “to make idle,” περισπάομαι, perispáomai, “to be drawn about,” in mind “to be distracted”): Spoken of the barren fig tree in the parable: “Cut it down; why doth it also cumber (block up, make unproductive) the ground?” ([Luk 13:7]). Cumbered means to be over-occupied with cares or business, distracted: “But Martha was cumbered about much serving” ([Luk 10:40]). The word cumbrance occurs only in [Deu 1:12]: “How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance?” (טרח, ṭoraḥ, “an encumbrance,” “a burden”). Compare [Isa 1:14], where the Revised Version, margin has “cumbrance,” the Revised Version (British and American) “trouble.”
