Quick Definition
βαρέω v. I weight, load, burden
Strong's Definition
from 926; to weigh down (figuratively)
KJV Usage: burden, charge, heavy, press
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | βαρέως · βάρος · βαρύς · βαρύτιμος · καταβαρέω · καταβαρύνομαι
22.18 · (βαρέομαι[a]) · Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances · Experience Trouble, Hardship
to be burdened, to be troubled to experience difficulty by burdensome and troublous obligations
23.71 · (βαρέομαι[b]) · Physiological Processes and States · Sleep, Waking
Collocation: βαρέομαι ὕπνῳ
to be sound asleep, to be completely asleep (an idiom, literally: to be burdened by sleep) to be in a state of deep sleep
23.69 · (βαρέομαι[c]) · Physiological Processes and States · Sleep, Waking
Collocation: ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ βεβαρημένοι
to have become very sleepy, to be very sleepy (an idiom, literally: their eyes were weighed down) to become excessively or exceedingly sleepy In some languages the equivalent of ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ βεβαρημένοι (or καταβαρυνόμενοι) would be ‘they could no longer keep their eyes open’ or ‘they could not drive sleep away.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βαρέω, -ὦ: to burden, weigh down, depress; in the N. T. found only in Pass., viz. pres. ptep. βαρούμενοι, impv. βαρείσθω; 1 aor. ἐβαρήθην ; pf. ptep. βεβαρημένος ; the better writ. do not use the pres.; they use only the pteps. βεβαρηώς and βεβαρημένος; see Matth. § 227; W. 83 (80); [Β. 84 (47); Veitchs.v.]. Used simply: éo be weighed down, oppressed, with external evils and calamities, 2 Co. i. 8; of the mental oppression which the thought of inevitable death occasions, 2 Co. v.4; ὀφθαλpot BeBapnpevor, sc. ὕπνῳ, weighed down with sleep, Mk. xiv. 40 (LT Tr WH καταβαρυνόμενοι) ; Mt. xxvi. 43; with ὕπνῳ added, Lk. ix. 32; ἐν (3) κραιπάλῃ, Lk. xxi. 34 Ree. βαρυνθῶσιν, [see βαρύνω], (Hom. Od. 19, 122 οἴνῳ BeBapnores, Diod. Sic. 4, 38 τῇ νόσῳ); μὴ βαρείσθω let it not be burdened, sc. with their expense, 1 Tim. v. 16, (εἰσφοραῖς, Dio Cass. 46, 32). [Comp.: ém-, καταBapéw. |
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βαρέω bareō 6x
to be heavy upon, weigh down, burden, oppress, as sleep, Mt. 26:43; Mk. 14:40; Lk. 9:32; calamities, 2 Cor. 1:8; 5:4; or, trouble, care, expense, etc. 1 Tim. 5:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βαρέω, -ῶ (later form of βαρύνω, q.v.),
[in LXX: Ex 7:14 (כָּבֵד), II Mac 13:9*;]
to depress, weigh down. In NT, in pass. only: Mt 26:43, Lk 9:32 21:34, II Co 1:8 5:4, I Ti 5:16.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βαρέω. The verb is only found in perf. pass. in LXX, and only twice (Exod 7%, 2 Macc 13%): see Thackeray Gr. i. p- 261. Similarly in NT we have only the passive, but the present and aorist are used. The record fits its early history, for βεβαρημένος is the oldest form after the Homeric BeBaρηώς ; and Hippocrates is the first to use βαρέεται. See Anz Subsidia, p. 266 ff. Instances of the active are late in appearing. Anz quotes Lucian’s censure on Bapeiv for βαρύνειν, and mentions C/G 585318 (A.p. 174) ἵνα μὴ τὴν πόλιν βαρῶμεν. MGr has Bape, “strike,” as well as βαρειοῦμαι, “be weary of? (Thumb Handbook, p. 321). The use of the verb in the papyri tallies with this record. Thus P Tebt II. 32725 (late ii/A.D.), γ]νυνὴ οὖσα ἀβοήθητος ποίλλο]ῖς ἔτεσι βεβαρημένη, ‘fa defenceless woman weighted with many years” (Edd.), P Oxy VI. 93978 (iv/A.D.) ἡνίκα éBapetro τῇ νόσῳ. It becomes a formula in | Bapos a group οἱ documents relating to taxation. P Giss I.4™ (A.D. 118) αὐτοί te βεβαρημένοι πολλῶι χρόνωι δημοσίοις [- - - 7. 2. 67 (A.D. 117) αὐτὸς δὲ βαροῦμαι τῷ ἐκφορίῳ : so 22. 6᾽.10. two documents in Archiv v. p. 245f., and another in P ΕΥΪ II. 968, all with the same phraseology, and dated about the same time. Similarly P Brem 735 (in Chrest. I. p. 277) (¢. A.D. 117) ὅπως μὴ βαρηθῶσιν ἢ παραπραχθῶσιν ot ἐνχώριοι ἢ συκοφαντηθῶσιν, Sy// 418% (A.D. 238) ἐὰν βαρούμεθα (needlessly emended -ώμεθα), φευξόμεθα ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκείων (query olk(e)t@v 2) καὶ μεγίστην ζημίαν τὸ ταμεῖον περιβληθήσεται. 74. 4225 (iv/A.D.) ὃ νομίζων βαρῖσθαι δέει τοῦ δικαστοῦ. These illustrate the use in 1 Tim 515: cf. also C7G 585315 (= OG/S 59515) as above. Other examples of the verb from the inscriptions are Xazbe/ 3354 θνήσκω] δ᾽ οὐχὶ ν[όσ]ῳ βεβαρημένος, 608° (ii/iii A.D.) κεῖτε δ[ὴ)] γήρᾳ βεβαρηϊμέϊνος. In Ath. Pal. vii. 290 we have πυμάτῳ βεβαρημένου ὕπνῳ: cf. Mt 26%, Lk g**. The curious list of prognostications to be drawn from involuntary twitchings, P Ryl I. 28'4ff (iv/a.p.), has σφυρὸν εὐώνυμον ἐὰν ἅληται ἐν κρίσει βαρη[θ]εὶς ἔσται καὶ ἐκφεύξεται, ‘‘ifthe left ankle quiver he will be burdened with a trial, and will be acquitted” (Ed.). This metaphorical usage, as in 2 Cor 18, π΄, may be further illustrated from P Oxy III. 525° (early ii/A.D.) where, with reference to a voyage he was undertaking, the writer complains—Kaé’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν Bapotpar δι᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ λείαν TO πράγματι καταξύομαι, ‘every day I am burdened on account of it and I am extremely worn out with the matter” (Edd.). Further instances of the active are P Oxy VIII. 1159? (late iii/A.p.) ἵνα μὴ βαρήσωῳ αὐτῷ ὀψωνίου, ‘that I may not trouble him about provisions” (Ed.), and the late τό. I. 1268 (A.p. 572), where one Stephanous undertakes βαρέσαι τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα, “to burden herself,” with certain imposts hitherto paid by her father. See also 26. X. 1224 Fr. 2 rectoll-® (uncanonical Gospel— iv/A.D.) pe €Bapnoev, ‘‘overcame me,” where the editor suggests φόβος or λύπη as a possible subject, as well as ὕπνος (cf. the citation from the Azth. Pal. above). Baovafas. As against the popular etymology given in Ac 455, Deissmann has shown on the evidence of certain inscriptions that this proper name is Graecized from the Semitic 1222 -Ξ “Son of Nebo”: see BS pp. 187 ff., 307 ff., Ζ ΤῊΣ vii. (1906) p. 91 f. This derivation has been accepted by Dalman Words, p. 40 f., and G. B. Gray Zxp7 x. p. 233 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βαρέω (bareō) — to burden. βαρέω, Aeolic dialect βορ-, see below, future -ήσω[Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect βεβάρηκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, see below:—weigh down, depress, βαρήσει ταῦτα τὸ πορθμεῖον [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸ ἔθνος ἐβάρει ταῖς εἰσφοραῖς [Refs 1st c.AD+] [same place]:—passive, κῆρ.. βόρηται [Refs 7th c.BC+]; β. τῷ ἐκφορίῳ [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with accusative, to be indignant at, αὐτῶν τὴν εὐγένειαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. charge an account, [Refs 6th c.AD+]
II. intransitive in Epic dialect perfect participle βεβαρηώς weighed down, heavy, οῐνῳ βεβαρηότες [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—later, perfect participle passive βεβαρημένος, μεθυσθεὶς τοῦ νέκταρος β. ηὗδεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς β. ὑπ᾽ οἴνου[NT+3rd c.BC+]; οἷον βεβαρημένος as though pregnant, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, present βαρέεται [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐβαρήθην [Refs 1st c.BC+]: perfect βεβάρηται [Refs]