Words the Bible translates as load
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 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.
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- 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
- amasעָמַסto load: to pile a weight onto a back, or to take that weight up and carry it
- ta'anטָעַןto loadnot studied yet
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