Words the Bible translates as burden
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 19 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- massaמַשָּׂאa burden: a load that is lifted and carried, whether goods on an animal's back or a weight laid on a person.
+2 more meanings
- an oracle: a weighty pronouncement from God delivered through a prophet, most often a sentence of doom against a nation.
- the carrying of song: a term for the performance of music in worship, used of the Levite who directed it.
- barosβάροςweight: heaviness itself, whether it presses down on the person carrying it or simply gives a thing mass and substance
- phortionφορτίονa load: whatever someone is carrying, named without any claim about how heavy it is
- bareōβαρέωto burdennot studied yet
- sevalahסִבְלָהburdennot studied yet
- sabbalסַבָּלburdennot studied yet
- epibareōἐπιβαρέωto burdennot studied yet
- katabareōκαταβαρέωto burdennot studied yet
- katanarkaomaiκαταναρκάομαιto burdennot studied yet
- phortizōφορτίζωto burdennot studied yet
- sevelסֵבֶלburdennot studied yet
- sovelסֹבֶלburdennot studied yet
- toraḥטֹרַחburdennot studied yet
- katabarunōκαταβαρύνωto burdennot studied yet
- ekhephאֶכֶףburdennot studied yet
- taraḥטָרַחto burdennot studied yet
- yehavיְהָבburdennot studied yet
- ma'amasahמַעֲמָסָהburdennot studied yet
- nesu'ahנְשׂוּאָהburdennot studied yet
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