barys · heavy, burdensome

What it means

barys (βαρύς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “heavy, burdensome”.

Heavy, hard to bear.

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. Of great load; hard to keep; important; fierce.

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

How it is translated

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

• are weighty ×1
• burdensome ×1
• heavy ×1
• savage ×1
• serious ×1
• weightier things ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Acts×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 John×1

• Matthew 23:4

  And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.

• Matthew 23:23

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin, and you have left aside the weightier things of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without leaving aside those.

• Acts 20:29

  I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

• Acts 25:7

  And when he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges which they could not prove,

• 2 Corinthians 10:10

  For “The letters,” he says, “are weighty and strong, but the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible.”

• 1 John 5:3

  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome,