Word 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, burden
From 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.)