Quick Definition
cargo
Strong's Definition
something carried, i.e. the cargo of a ship
Derivation: from G5342 (φέρω);
KJV Usage: lading
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φορτίον, -ov, τό, (dimin. of φόρτος, but dimin. only in form not in signif.; cf. Bim. Ausf. Spr. ii. p. 440; [W. § 2,1. fin.]), fr. Hes. down, Sept. for xm, a burden, load: of the freight or lading of a ship (often so in Grk. writ. fr. Hes. opp. 645, 695 down), Acts xxvii. 10 GL TTr WH. Metaph.: of burdensome rites, plur., [Mt. xxiii.4]; Lk. xi.46; of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a ‘burden’ by way of contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees the observance of which was most oppressive, Mt. xi. 30 (αὐτὸς μόνος δύναται Baστάσαι Ζήνωνος φορτίον, Diog. Laért. 7, 5, 4 (171); see ᾧυγός, 1 b.); of faults, the consciousness of which oppresses the soul, Gal. vi. 5 [yet ef. Bp. Lghtft. ad loc. Syn. see ὄγκος, fin.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* φόρτος, -ου, ὁ
(< φέρω),
a load: esp. of a ship's cargo (Hom., Hdt., and late prose writers), Ac 27:10, Rec.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φορτίον, (1) ‘‘burden,’”’ ‘‘load’’: P Oxy WII. 10493 (account of transport—late ii/a.D.) ὄνο(ι) 8 φο(ρτία) ἢ, “9 donkeys, 8 loads” (see the editor’s note). (2) ‘‘ freight,” “cargo,” as in Ac 271° (TR φόρτος): P Oxy VIII. 1153 (i/A.D.) payment by Heraclas the boatman (ὃ vautiKkds) of 600 drachmae (ὑπὲρ) τῶν φορτίων αὐτοῦ, ‘for his freights,” P Lond 9487 (A.D. 236) (= III. p. 220), the shipmaster is to receive 100 drachmae for freightage, 40 paid in advance and the remaining 60 on the safe delivery of the cargo— ἅπερ φορτία παραδώσει σῷα Kal ἀκακούργητα. The hitherto rare form φόρετρον is found = ‘‘ freight” in P Petr IT. 30 (a)}8 (Ptol.), P Ryl II. 2095: 34 (early iii/A.D.), P Oxy XII. 158918 (early iv/A.D.), and numerous exx. in Preisigke III. Index p. 341, and the new verb φορετρίζω in P Oxy VII. 106918 (iii/a.D.), and 74. XII. 15893® (early
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φόρτος (phortos) — cargo. φόρτος, ὁ, (φέρω) load, freight, cargo, [Refs 8th c.BC+], and later Prose, as [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐποιήσαντό με φ., explained as πεπραγμάτευμαι, προδέδομαι, φόρτος γεγένημαι, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; φ. ἔρωτος, of Europa on the bull, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
2. metaphorically, heavy load or burden, φ. χρείας, κακῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare φορτίον.
II. Attic dialect, vulgar stuff, rubbish, balderdash, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. mass of detail, 'stuff', in semi-colloquial sense, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]