βάρος

βάρος, -εος, τό,

[in LXX: Dom 18,21 (כּבד), Jdt 7,4, Sir 13,2, 2Ma 9,10, 3Ma 5,47 * ;]

weight;

(a) a weight, burden, lit. and metaphorically: Matt 20,12, ApG 15,28, 2 Kor 4,17, Åb 2,24; ἀλλήλων τὰ β., one another's faults, Gal 6,2 ἐν β., burdensome: 1 Thess 2,6, R, txt., but see infr.;

(b) in late Gk. (Soph., Lex., see word), dignity, authority: ἐν βάρει, 1 Thess 2,6 (R, mg.; see Milligan, ICG, in l.).†

SYN.: ὄγκος, an encumbrance; φορτίον, a burden, that which is borne.