φορτίον: Difference between revisions

|txtha=φορτίου, τό ([[diminutive]] of [[φόρτος]], [[but]] [[diminutive]] [[only]] in [[form]] [[not]] in [[significance]]; cf. [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii; p. 440; (Winer's Grammar, § 2,1d. at the [[end]])), from [[Hesiod]] [[down]], the Sept. for מַשָׂא, a [[burden]], [[load]]: of the [[freight]] or lading of a [[ship]] ([[often]] so in Greek writings from [[Hesiod]], Works, 645,695 [[down]]), G L T Tr WH. Metaphorically: of [[burdensome]] rites, plural ([[αὐτός]] [[μόνος]] δύναται βαστάσαι Ζηνωνος [[φορτίον]], ([[Diogenes]] Laërtius 7,5, 4 (171); [[see]] [[ζυγός]], 1b.); of faults, the [[consciousness]] of [[which]] oppresses the [[soul]], Lightfoot at the [[passage]] Synonym: [[see]] [[ὄγκος]], at the [[end]].)