Cumber, Cumbered
Cumber, Cumbered
kumber, (, katargeo, to make idle, , perispaomai, to be drawn about, in mind to be distracted): Spoken of the barren fig tree in the parable: Cut it down; why doth it also cumber (block up, make unproductive) the ground? (Luk 13:7). Cumbered means to be over-occupied with cares or business, distracted: But Martha was cumbered about much serving (Luk 10:40). The word cumbrance occurs only in Deu 1:12 : How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance? (, torah, an encumbrance, a burden). Compare Isa 1:14, where the Revised Version, margin has cumbrance, the Revised Version (British and American) trouble.