Quick Definition
βάρος, ους, τό n.n. a weight, burden
Strong's Definition
probably from the same as 939 (through the notion of going down; compare 899); weight; in the New Testament only, figuratively, a load, abundance, authority
KJV Usage: burden(-some), weight
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ους | βαρέω
22.4 · Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances · Trouble, Hardship, Distress
hardship, burden hardship which is regarded as particularly burdensome and exhausting In MAT 20:12 βάρος refers not to difficulties in general but to the specific hardship of working for the entire day.
In a number of languages hardship resulting from work may be expressed in terms of the effect upon the workers, for example, ‘to get tired from working’ or ‘to become weak as the result of working.’
78.23 · Degree · Much, Little [Positive-Negative Degree]
tremendous, very great a high point on a scale of extent and often implying importance and value
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βάρος, -cos, τό, heaviness, weight, burden, trouble: load, ἐπιτιθέναι τινί (Xen. oec. 17, 9), to impose upon one diflicult requirements, Acts xv. 28; βάλλειν ἐπί τινα, Rev. ii. 24 (where the meaning is, ‘I put upon you no other injunction which it might be difficult to observe’; ef. Diisterdieck ad loc.); βαστάζειν τὸ βάρος τινός, i. 6. either the burden of a thing, as τὸ βάρος τῆς ἡμέρας the wearisome labor of the day Mt. xx. 12, or that which a person bears, as in Gal. vi. 2 (where used of troublesome moral taults; the meaning is, ‘bear one another’s faults’). αἰώνιον βάρος δύξης a weight of glory never to cease, i. 6. vast and transcendent glory (blessedness), 2 Co. iv. 17; ef. W. § 34, 3; (πλούτου, Plut. Alex. M. 48). weight i. q. authority: ἐν βάρει εἶναι to have authority and influence, 1 Th. ii. 7 (6), (so also in Grk. writ.; ef. Wesseling on Diod. Sic. 4, 61; [exx. in Suidas s. v.]). [Syn. see ὄγκος.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βάρος baros 6x
weight, heaviness; a burden, anything grievous and hard to be borne, Mt. 20:12; Acts 15:28; Gal. 6:2; Rev. 2:24; burden, charge or weight, influence, dignity, honor, 1 Thess. 2:7; with another noun in government, fulness, abundance, excellence, 2 Cor. 4:17*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βάρος, -εος, τό,
[in LXX: Jg 18:21 (כּבד), Jth 7:4, Si 13:2, II Mac 9:10, III Mac 5:47*;]
weight; a weight, burden, lit. and metaph.: Mt 20:12, Ac 15:28, II Co 4:17, Re 2:24; ἀλλήλων τὰ β., one another's faults, Ga 6:2; ἐν β., burdensome: I Th 2:6, R, txt., but v. infr.;
in late Gk. (Soph., Lex., s.v.), dignity, authority: ἐν βάρει, I Th 2:6 (R, mg.; v. Milligan, ICG, in l.).†
SYN.: ὄγκος, an encumbrance; φορτίον, a burden, that which is borne.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βάρος. BGU I. 159% ff (A.p.216) (= Chrest. I. p. 486) μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀναδο[θέντο]ς μου εἰς Sy[poo]([a]y λειτουργίαν Baρυτάτην οὖσαν ἀπέστ[η)]ν τῆς κώμης οὐ δυνόμενος ὑποστῆναι τὸ βάρος τῆς λειτουργίας is a good example of the ordinary use of this noun with the corresponding adjective: cf. P Oxy VII. 10624 (ii/a-p.) εἰ δὲ τοῦτό σοι βάρος φέρει, ‘‘if it is troublesome” (Ed.). A ‘* burden” of oppression is referred to in Sy// 418% (A.D. 238) ἐπεὶ οὖν οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα φέρειν τὰ βάρη, and one of taxation in P Giss I. 7° (A.D. 117) ἐπεὶ οὖν ὃ κύριος ἡμῶν ᾿Αδριανὸς. . . ἐκούφισεν τῶν ἐνχωρίων τὰ βάρη καθολικῶς διὰ προγράμματος, ἀξιῶ τοιούτου ὄντος τοῦ βάρους κτὰ. It denotes responsibility in 26. 1918 (ii/A.D.) ἀλλὰ ὡς [καὶ ὁ ἐϊνθάδε στρατηγὸς τοῖς ἄρχουσι ἐπιτίθησι τὸ βάρος, καὶ σὺ τὸ αὐϊτὸ ποίει. In reference to moral
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βάρος (baros) — burden. βάρος [ᾰ], ους, Ionic dialect εος, τό, weight, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. a weight, burden, load, τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+]weights, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. oppressiveness, τὸ τῆς ὀσμῆς ἀφόρητον β. [LXX]; βάρος φέρειν to give trouble, τινί [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IV. heaviness, torpor, β. ναρκῶδες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βάρη καὶ δυσαρεστήματα perhaps feeling of oppression, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
V. metaphorically, heavy weight, σιγῆς β. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βάρος πημονῆς, συμφορᾶς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ βάρους μεταλαμβάνειν Arist [Refs 1st c.AD+]: hence alone, grief, misery, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of oppressive demands, β. τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων, τῶν φόρων, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα φέρειν τὰ β. [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; κουφίσαι τὰ β. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VI. in good sense, abundance, πλούτου, ὄλβου, [NT+5th c.BC+]; strength, στρατοπέδων [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; β. τῆς ὑλακῆς violence of.., [Refs 4th c.AD+]
VII. weight, influence, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; gravity, dignity of character, [Refs]; opposed to χάρις, [Refs]
VIII. Grammars, stress of accent, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IX. in Music, ={βαρύτης}, low pitch, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]