Lexical Summary bradynō: to retard, to be slow Original Word: βραδύνωTransliteration: bradynō Phonetic Spelling: (brad-oo'-no) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to retard, to be slow Meaning: to retard, to be slow Strong's Concordance hesitate, delay, tarry. From bradus; to delay -- be slack, tarry. see GREEK bradus Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1019: βραδύνωβραδύνω; (βραδύς); to delay, be slow; 1. rarely transitive, to render slow, retard: τήν σωτηρίαν, the Sept. Isaiah 46:13; passive ὁδός, Sophocles El. 1501 (cf. O. C. 1628). Mostly 2. intransitive, "to be long, to tarry, loiter (so from Aeschylus down): 1 Timothy 3:15; unusually, with the genitive of the thing which one delays to effect, 2 Peter 3:9 τῆς ἐπαγγελίας (A. V. is not slack concerning his promise) i. e. to fulfil his promise; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6 b. (Sir. 32:22 (Sir. 35:22.) |
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