Phortion means “burden” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5413 — nathak (“drop”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5413 φορτίον (phortion) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phortion (for-tee'-on) n. 1. an invoice (as part of freight) 2. (figuratively) a task or service It has 10 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include burden and burdens. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
phortion (for-tee'-on) n. 1. an invoice (as part of freight) 2. (figuratively) a task or service [diminutive of G5414] KJV: burden Root(s): G5414
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5413. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
burden
Usage: φορτίον, -ου, τό (dimin. of φόρτος), [in LXX chiefly for מַשָּׂא ;] a burden, load: of the cargo of a ship (Hdt., al.), Act.27:10; metaphorically, Mat.11:30 23:4, Luk.11:46, Gal.6:5.† SYN.: βάρος (which see), ὄγκος (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phortion, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5413 (φορτίον) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?
If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? Why hast thou made me as thine accuser, And why am I a burden to thee?
For my transgressions have gone over my head: They have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: But grace shall be found in the lips of the wise.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5413.
I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?
If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? Why hast thou made me as thine accuser, And why am I a burden to thee?
For my transgressions have gone over my head: They have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
For every man shall bear his own burden.
The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: But grace shall be found in the lips of the wise.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5413, grouped by book.
Phortion (Strong's G5413) is a Greek word most simply glossed "burden". phortion (for-tee'-on) n. 1. an invoice (as part of freight) 2. (figuratively) a task or service
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G5413 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5413 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as burden and burdens. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5413, with linked reader references where each row is available.