Lexical Summary phortizō: to load Original Word: φορτίζωTransliteration: phortizō Phonetic Spelling: (for-tid'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to load Meaning: to load Strong's Concordance to load, burdenFrom phortos; to load up (properly, as a vessel or animal), i.e. (figuratively) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety) -- lade, by heavy laden. see GREEK phortos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5412: φορτίζωφορτίζω; perfect passive participle πεφορτισμένος; (φόρτος, which see); to place a burden upon, to load: φορτίζειν τινα φορτίον (on the double accusative see Buttmann, 149 (130)), to load one with a burden (of rites and unwarranted precepts), Luke 11:46; πεφορτισμένος 'heavy laden' (with the burdensome requirements of the Mosaic law and of tradition, and with the consciousness of sin), Matthew 11:28. (Ezekiel 16:33; Hesiod, Works, 692; Lucian, navig. 45; Anthol. 10, 5, 5; ecclesiastical writings) (Compare: ἀποφορτίζομαι.) |