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burden

Meaning of “burden”

Sense 1: A load carried; a weight, hardship, duty, or responsibility; also a solemn message laid upon a speaker. Sense 2: To weigh down or oppress.

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First occurrence: Exodus 18:22

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Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:12 · retained source text

How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

2 Samuel 15:33
Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 15:33 · retained source text

Unto whom Dauid said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden vnto me.

2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 19:35 · retained source text

I am this day fourescore yeeres olde: and can I discerne betweene good and euill? Can thy seruant taste what I eate, or what I drinke? can I heare any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherfore then should thy seruant bee yet a burden vnto my lord the king?

2 Kings 5:17
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Kings 5:17 · retained source text

And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be giuen to thy seruant two mules burden of earth? for thy seruant wil henceforth offer neither burnt offering, nor sacrifice vnto other gods, but vnto the LORD.

2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Kings 8:9 · retained source text

So Hazael went to meete him, and tooke a present with him, euen of euery good thing of Damascus, fourtie camels burden, and came, and stood before him, and said, Thy sonne Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recouer of this disease?

1611 marginal noteHeb. in his hand.

2 Kings 9:25
Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 9:25 · retained source text

Then said Iehu to Bidkar his captaine, Take vp, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Iezreelite: for remember, how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laide this burden vpon him:

2 Chronicles 35:3
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the Lord your God, and his people Israel,
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 35:3 · retained source text

And said vnto the Leuites, that taught all Israel, which were holy vnto the LORD, Put the holy Arke in the house, which Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden vpon your shoulders: serue now the LORD your God, and his people Israel.

Nehemiah 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 13:19 · retained source text

And it came to passe, that when the gates of Ierusalem beganne to be darke before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my seruants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Job 7:20
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 7:20 · retained source text

I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?

Psalms 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 38:4 · retained source text

For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head: as an heauy burden, they are too heauie for me.

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