The words and are both translated ‘burden.’ The difference between the two words is that with (from , ‘heavy’) the burden is always heavy and oppressive; whereas the idea in (from , ‘to carry’) is that it has to be carried, as freight, baggage, etc., though it need not be heavy; as the burden was which the Jewish leaders laid on others, Mat 23:4; Luk 11:46; or it may be light, as the Lord says, “My burden is light.” Mat 11:30<\/p>\n
In Gal 6:2; Gal 6:5 both words are employed: “Bear ye one another’s burdens (.) . . . . for every man shall bear his own burden (.)” We may and should in sympathy bear one another’s troubles, and so on; but each one is responsible for his own ‘bundle:’ he cannot transfer it to another<\/p>\n
Those who had laboured for twelve hours complained of the burden () they had borne. Mat 20:12. The word is employed also in 2Co 4:17 for the “exceeding and eternal ‘weight’ of glory” which the apostle looked forward to in contrast with “our light affliction.”<\/p>\n
25. BURDEN. WEIGHT The words and are both translated ‘burden.’ The difference between the two words is that with (from , ‘heavy’) the burden is always heavy and oppressive; whereas the idea in (from , ‘to carry’) is that it has to be carried, as freight, baggage, etc., though it need not be heavy; as … Continue reading “25. BURDEN. WEIGHT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}