Lexicon phortion: a burden Original Word: φορτίον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: phortion Phonetic Spelling: (for-tee'-on) Short Definition: a burden, freight Definition: a burden; the freight of a ship. HELPS word-Studies 5413 phortíon – properly, a burden which must be carried by the individual, i.e. as something personal and hence is not transferrable, i.e. it cannot "be shifted" to someone else. 5413 (phortion) in Galatians 6:5 Gal 6:5: "For each one will bear his own load (5413 /phortíon)" (NASU). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origindim. of phortos (load, cargo); from pheróDefinitiona burden NASB Translationburden (1), burdens (3), cargo (1), load (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5413: φορτίονφορτίον, 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.)
Strong's burden. Diminutive of phortos; an invoice (as part of freight), i.e. (figuratively) a task or service -- burden. see GREEK phortos |
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