baros · weight, burden

What it means

baros (βάρος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “weight, burden”.

Also weight of authority.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What weighs on someone: a load, a toil, or authority imposed.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• burden ×3
• burdens ×1
• impose our authority ×1
• weight ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Acts×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 20:12

  saying, ‘These last ones worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things:

• 2 Corinthians 4:17

  For our momentary light affliction is producing for us beyond all measure an eternal weight of glory,

• Galatians 6:2

  Bear one another’s burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:7

  though able to impose our authority as apostles of the Messiah. Instead, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her own children.

• Revelation 2:24

  But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, all who do not have this teaching, who have not known what they call the deep things of Satan: I am not putting on you any other burden;