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Lexicon :: Strong's G1024 - brachys

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βραχύς
Transliteration
brachys (Key)
Pronunciation
brakh-ooce'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

βραχύς brachýs, brakh-ooce'; of uncertain affinity; short (of time, place, quantity, or number):—few words, little (space, while).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G1024 in the following manner: a little (4x), a little space (1x), a little while (1x), few words (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G1024 in the following manner: a little (4x), a little space (1x), a little while (1x), few words (1x).
  1. short, small, little

    1. of place, a short distance, a little

    2. of time, a short time, for a little while

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βραχύς brachýs, brakh-ooce'; of uncertain affinity; short (of time, place, quantity, or number):—few words, little (space, while).
STRONGS G1024:
βραχύς, -εῖα, -ύ, short, small, little, (from Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides down);
a. of place; neuter βραχύ adverbially, a short distance, a little: Acts 27:28 (2 Samuel 16:1; Thucydides 1, 63).
b. of time; βραχύ τι a short time, for a little while: Hebrews 2:7, 9, (where the writer transfers to time what the Sept. in Psalm 8:6 says of rank); Acts 5:34 [here L T Tr WH omit τι]; μετὰ βραχύ shortly after, Luke 22:58.
c. of quantity and measure; βραχύ τι [Tr text WH omits; L Tr marginal reading brackets τι] some little part, a little: John 6:7 (βραχύ τι τοῦ μέλιτος, 1 Samuel 14:29; ἔλαιον βραχύ, Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 2; βραχύτατος λιβανωτός, Philo de vict. off. § 4); διὰ βραχέων in few namely, words, briefly, Hebrews 13:22 (so [Plato, Demosthenes, others (cf. Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited)] Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 4; ἐν βραχυτάτῳ δηλοῦν to show very briefly, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 2, 15).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Samuel
14:29
2 Samuel
16:1
Psalms
8:6
Luke
22:58
John
6:7
Acts
5:34; 27:28
Hebrews
2:7; 2:9; 13:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1024 matches the Greek βραχύς (brachys),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 - Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[fn]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - If the LORD had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were few in number,
of little account, and sojourners in it,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 - They have almost made an end of me on earth,
but I have not forsaken your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:17 - Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,
I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
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