Lexicon dusbastaktos: hard to be borne, oppressive Original Word: δυσβάστακτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: dusbastaktos Phonetic Spelling: (doos-bas'-tak-tos) Short Definition: difficult to carry Definition: difficult to carry, oppressive. HELPS word-Studies 1419 dysbástaktos (an adjective, derived from 1418 /dys-, "problematic, difficult" and 941 /bastázō, "bear along") – properly, doubly heavy, describing what is difficult or oppressive to carry (bear). 1419 (dysbástaktos) is very emphatic because both of the roots convey "difficulty" ("grievous burden"). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dus- and bastaktos (borne); from bastazóDefinitionhard to be borne, oppressive NASB Translationhard to bear (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1419: δυσβάστακτοςδυσβάστακτος, δυσβάστακτον ( βαστάζω), hard ( A. V. grievous) to be borne: Matthew 23:4 ( T WH text omit; Tr brackets δυσβάστακτος and Luke 11:46 φορτία δυσβάστακτα, said of precepts hard to obey, and irksome. (the Sept. Proverbs 27:3; Philo, omn. prob. book § 5; Plutarch, quaest. nat. c. 16, 4, p. 915 f.)
Strong's grievous, hard to bear. From dus- and a derivative of bastazo; oppressive -- grievous to be borne. see GREEK dus- see GREEK bastazo |
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