βραχύς, βραχεια, βραχύ, short, small, little (from Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides down); a. of place; neuter βραχύ adverbially, a short distance, a little: Act_27:28 (2Sa_16:1; Thucydides 1, 63). b. of time; βραχύ τί a short time, for a little while: Heb_2:7; Heb_2:9, (where the writer transfers to time what the Sept. in Psa_8:6 says of rank); Act_5:34 (here L T Tr WH omit τί); μετά βραχύ shortly after, Luk_22:58. c. of quantity and measure; βραχύ τί (Tr text WH omits; L Tr marginal reading brackets τί) some little part, a little: Joh_6:7 (βραχύ τί τοῦ μέλιτος, 1Sa_14:29; ἔλαιον βραχύ, Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 2; βραχυτατος λιβανωτός, Philo de vict. off. § 4); διά βραχέων in few namely, words, briefly, Heb_13:22 (so (Plato, Demosthenes, others (cf. Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited)) Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 4; ἐν βραχυτάτω δηλουν to show very briefly, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 2, 15).

βραχύς brachus 7x short, brief; few, small, Luk_22:58 ; Joh_6:7 ; Act_5:34 ; Act_27:28 ; Heb_2:7 ; Heb_2:9 ; Heb_13:22

βραχύς , -εῖα , -ύ , [in LXX chiefly for H4592 ;] short; (a) of time; short, little: βραχύ , Act_5:34 ; μετὰ β ., Luk_22:58 ; β . τι , a short time, Heb_2:7 ; Heb_2:9 , RV , mg .; (b) of distance: Act_27:28 ; (c) of quantity or value, little, few: Joh_6:7 , Heb_2:7 ; Heb_2:9 , RV , txt .; pl ., διὰ βραχέων , in few words, Heb_13:22 .†

βραχύς [page 117] The adjective is used of stature in P Tebt I. 32 .23 (? B.C. 145) ἔστιν δὲ ὡς (ἐτῶν ) κβ̄ βραχὺς μελίχρ (ως ) κλαστός , he is about 22 years of age, short, fair, curly-haired (Edd.) : cf. P Petr I. 13 (2) .10 , 14 .22 (both B.C. 237), etc. In P Oxy IV. 705 .77 (A.D. 200 2) we have ἐπίδοσίν τ [ινα ] βραχεῖαν , a trifling benefaction, and in the epigram PSI I. 17 i. 1 (? iii/A.D.) the editor understands οὐ βραχὺν ἂνδρα as a man not of small account in view of the ἐπισημ [ότατον ] which follows. In CPHerm 7 ii. 18 (? ii/iii A.D.) ἄλλαι ἐσκορπισμέναι ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ βραχῖαι μύξαι , it is applied to small plumtrees, and in Vettius Valens, p. 78 .26 to a small army or town. So P Lille I. 1 verso .15 (B.C. 259 8) εἰς ὃ ἔσται βραχὺ τὸ ἀνάλωμα . For β . of time cf. P Par 51 .17 (B.C. 160) (= Selections , p. 20) ἔτι βραχὺ ἔχω . . ., I have still for a little while . . ., P Fay 204 (ii/iii A.D.) ὁ βίος βραχύ [ς ], and P. Strass I. 22 .21 (iii/A.D.) ἀφορμὴν κἂν βραχεῖαν δικαίαν κατοχῆς . The phrase διὰ βραχέων . as in Heb_13:22 , occurs in P Strass I. 41 .8 (A.D. 250) διὰ βραχέων σε διδάξω : cf. also BGU III. 1011 ii. 11 (ii/B.C.) ὡς βραχύτατα γράφειν . That short, in a document or a sermon, is a relative term, is rather amusingly shown at the end of a very long petition, P Flor III. 296 .58 (vi/A.D.) . .]ἡγείσθω δὲ τῶν βραχέων μου γραμμάτων ἡ ἐποφειλ̣ομένη ὑμῖν ἐξ̣ [ἐμοῦ ?] προσκύνησις καὶ ὁ ἀσπασμός μου ὡς οὐ χάρτης χωρεῖ , δέσποτ̣α̣. For an example of the irregular comparative, see the astronomical papyrus P Par 1 .151 , written about ii/B.C., where we have καθ᾽ ὃν ὁ ἥλιος φερόμενος τὴν μὲν ἡμέραν βραχυτέραν ποιεῖ , τὴν δὲ νύκτα μακροτέραν . Doubtless, as Blass assumes, the original author in iv/B.C. wrote βραχυτάτην and μακροτάτην , and this makes the scribe s alteration two centuries later all the more significant : see Proleg. p. 78. On the barbarism βραχήν found in Asia Minor, and its witness to local pronunciation, see Thumb Hellen. p. 139.

βραχύς "short", Lat. brevis: of Space and Time, Hdt. , attic; ἐν βραχεῖ (ionic βραχέϊ) in a "short" time, "briefly", Hdt. , etc.; διὰ βραχέος Thuc. :—adv. βραχέως, "scantily, seldom", id=Hdt. of Size, "short, small, little", Pind. , Soph. ; βρ. τεῖχος a "low" wall, Thuc. ; κατὰ βραχύ "little by little", id=Thuc. of Quantity, "few", διὰ βραχέων "in few words", Plat. ; διὰ βραχυτάτων Dem. :—adv., βραχέως, "briefly, in few words", Xen. of quality, "humble, insignificant", Soph. :—of things, "small, petty, trifling", id=Xen. , etc.:—neut. as adv., βραχὺ φροντίζειν τινός to think "lightly" of, Dem.

βραχύς, -εῖα, -ύ, [in LXX chiefly for מְעַט ;] short; __(a) of time; short, little: βραχύ, Act.5:34; μετὰ β., Luk.22:58; β. τι, a short time, Heb.2:7, 9 RV, mg.; __(b) of distance: Act.27:28; __(with) of quantity or value, little, few: Jhn.6:7, Heb.2:7, 9 RV, txt.; pl., διὰ βραχέων, in few words, Heb.13:22. † (AS)