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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the country. See how my eyes brightened when I tasted a little of this honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 - You have made them[fn] a little lower than the angels[fn] and crowned them[fn] with glory and honor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 - They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:17 - I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.
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