βαρέω
to burden
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (33%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G916 appears — 6 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 9:32 βεβαρημένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
- Luke 21:34 βαρηθῶσιν aor pass subj 3pl "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:8 ἐβαρήθημεν aor pass ind 1pl For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4 βαρούμενοι pres pass ptcp nom pl masc For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
1 Timothy 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb βαρεω centers on the idea of “to burden.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 26:43. It appears 6 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (33%), then 2 Corinthians and Matthew. It clusters with βαρυς, βαρεως and βαρυνω under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G916 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 33%
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 33%
- Matthew 1 verse 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Heavy 3×
- American Standard Version: Be burdened 1×, Being burdened 1×, Heavy 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be burdened 1×, Heavy 1×, Overcome 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be burdened 1×, Be weighed down 1×, Being burdened 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G916 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G916 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G916 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G916 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to burden, weigh down, depress
Word origin
Derived from βαρυς (barýs) (G926) — heavy.
From G926 ; to weigh down (figuratively): - burden charge heavy press.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G916 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βεβαρημένοι bebarēménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 26:43 | 2 |
| βαρείσθω bareísthō | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Timothy 5:16 | 1 |
| βαρηθῶσιν barēthō̂sin | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 21:34 | 1 |
| βαρούμενοι baroúmenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 5:4 | 1 |
| ἐβαρήθημεν ebarḗthēmen | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 1:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G916, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βαρεω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 7:14 βαρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G916) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G916) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
