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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took [fn]an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do [fn]likewise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - “I am [fn]now eighty years old. Can I know between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 -

“Have I sinned? What have I done to You,

O watcher of men?

Why have You set me as Your target,

So that I am a burden to myself?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:4 -

For my iniquities go over my head;

As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 -

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their images are on the beasts and the cattle.

The things [fn]that you carry are burdensome,

A load for the weary beast.

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