Bareo means “burden” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H916 — bedolach (“bdellium”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G916 βαρέω (bareo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. bareo (bar-eh'-o) v. 1. to weigh down (figuratively) [from G926] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include heavy and burdened. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
bareo (bar-eh'-o) v. 1. to weigh down (figuratively) [from G926] KJV: burden, charge, heavy, press Root(s): G926
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G916. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to burden
Usage: βαρέω, -ῶ (later form of βαρύνω, which see), [in LXX: Exo.7:14 (כָּבֵד), 2Ma.13:9 * ;] to depress, weigh down. In NT, in pass. only: Mat.26:43, Luk.9:32 21:34, 2Co.1:8 5:4, 1Ti.5:16.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bareo, 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 and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G916 (βαρέω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the Lord said to Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is made hard, so that he should not let the people go.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G916.
And the Lord said to Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is made hard, so that he should not let the people go.
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G916, grouped by book.
Bareo (Strong's G916) is a Greek word most simply glossed "burden". bareo (bar-eh'-o) v. 1. to weigh down (figuratively) [from G926]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G916 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G916 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as heavy and burdened. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G916, with linked reader references where each row is available.