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Lexicon :: Strong's G5413 - phortion

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φορτίον
Transliteration
phortion (Key)
Pronunciation
for-tee'-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Diminutive of φόρτος (G5414)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:84,1252

Strong’s Definitions

φορτίον phortíon, for-tee'-on; diminutive of G5414; an invoice (as part of freight), i.e. (figuratively) a task or service:—burden.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G5413 in the following manner: burden (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G5413 in the following manner: burden (5x).
  1. a burden, load

    1. of the freight or lading of a ship

  2. metaph.

    1. of burdensome rites

    2. of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a "burden" by way of the contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees, the observance of which was most oppressive

    3. faults of the conscience which oppress the soul

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φορτίον phortíon, for-tee'-on; diminutive of G5414; an invoice (as part of freight), i.e. (figuratively) a task or service:—burden.
STRONGS G5413:
φορτίον, φορτίου, τό (diminutive of φόρτος, but diminutive only in form not in significance; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii; p. 440; (Winers Grammar, § 2, 1 d. at the end)), from Hesiod down, the Sept. for מַשָׂא, a burden, load: of the freight or lading of a ship (often so in Greek writings from Hesiod, Works, 645, 695 down), Acts 27:10 G L T Tr WH. Metaphorically: of burdensome rites, plural (Matthew 23:4); Luke 11:46; 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, Matthew 11:30 (αὐτός μόνος δύναται βαστάσαι Ζηνωνος φορτίον, (Diogenes Laërtius 7, 5, 4 (171); see ζυγός, 1 b.); of faults, the consciousness of which oppresses the soul, Galatians 6:5 (yet cf. Lightfoot at the passage Synonym: see ὄγκος, at the end.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
11:30; 23:4
Luke
11:46
Acts
27:10
Galatians
6:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5413 matches the Greek φορτίον (phortion),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - And Abimelech went up to the mount of Selmon, and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took [fn]an axe in his hand, and cut down a branch of a tree, and took it, and laid it on his shoulders; and said to the people that were with him, What ye see me doing, do quickly as I.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And they cut down likewise even every man a branch, and went after Abimelech, and laid them against the place of gathering, and burnt the place of gathering over them with fire; and they died, even all the men of the tower of Sicima, about a thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - (LXX 19:36) I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and why am I a burden to thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:4 - (LXX 37:5) For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 - Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;
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