Lexical Summary onkos: bulk, an encumbrance Original Word: ὄγκοςTransliteration: onkos Phonetic Spelling: (ong'-kos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: bulk, an encumbrance Meaning: bulk, an encumbrance Strong's Concordance weight. Probably from the same as agkale; a mass (as bending or bulging by its load), i.e. Burden (hindrance) -- weight. see GREEK agkale Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3591: ὄγκοςὄγκος, ὀγδου, ὁ (apparently from ἘΓΚΩ, ἐνεγκεῖν, equivalent to φόρτος, see Buttmann, Lexil. i. 288ff (Fishlake's translation, p. 151f), whatever is prominent, protuberance, bulk, mass, hence), a burden, weight, encumbrance: Hebrews 12:1. (In many other uses in Greek writings of all ages.) |