Quick Definition
I burden,oppress
Strong's Definition
to impose upon
Derivation: from G2596 (κατά) and G916 (βαρέω);
KJV Usage: burden
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καταβαρέω, καταβάρω: 1 aorist κατεβάρησα; properly, to press down by an imposed weight; to weigh down; metaphorically, to burden: τινα, anyone, 2Co_12:16. (Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Appian, Lucian)
STRONGS NT 2599a: καταβαρύνωκαταβαρύνω: equivalent to καταβαρέω (which see); present passive participle καταβαρυνόμενος, Mar_14:40 L T Tr WH; see βαρέω. (the Sept.; Theophrastus, et al.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καταβαρέω katabareō 1x
pr. to weigh down, met. to burden, be burdensome to, 2Co_12:16
καταβαρύνω katabarynō 1x
to weigh down, depress, pass., be heavy, Mar_14:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† κατα -βαρέω , -ῶ ,
to weigh down: metaph ., c . acc pers ., 2Co_12:16 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καταβαρέω [page 324]
P Oxy III. 487 .10 (A.D. 156) ἐμοῦ τε καταβαρηθ̣ε̣[ν ]τος ἐν ταῖς λιτουργίαις , since I am weighed down by my official duties (Edd.), shows this Pauline word ( 2Co_12:16 ) in a very uneducated document : cf. the similar use of the simplex construed with ἐν in Luk_21:34 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
καταβαρέω fut. ήσω "to weigh down, overload", Luc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κατα-βαρέω, -ῶ
to weigh down: metaphorically, with accusative of person(s), 2Co.12:16.†
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