Strong's Lexicon
G1024 — βραχύς
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1024 |
|---|---|
| Word: | βραχύς |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Etymology: | of uncertain affinity |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 7 |
| Transliteration: | brachus |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | brakh-ooce' |
| Meaning: | 1. short {of time, place, quantity, or number} |
| KJV Renderings: | few words, little (space, while) |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βραχύς, βραχεια, βραχύ, short, small, little (from Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides down);
a. of place; neuter βραχύ adverbially, a short distance, a little: Act 27:28 (2Sa 16:1; Thucydides 1, 63).
b. of time; βραχύ τί a short time, for a little while: Heb 2:7; Heb 2:9, (where the writer transfers to time what the Sept. in Psa 8:6 says of rank); Act 5:34 (here L T Tr WH omit τί); μετά βραχύ shortly after, Luk 22:58.
c. of quantity and measure; βραχύ τί (Tr text WH omits; L Tr marginal reading brackets τί) some little part, a little: Joh 6:7 (βραχύ τί τοῦ μέλιτος, 1Sa 14:29; ἔλαιον βραχύ, Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 2; βραχυτατος λιβανωτός, Philo de vict. off. § 4); διά βραχέων in few namely, words, briefly, Heb 13:22 (so (Plato, Demosthenes, others (cf. Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited)) Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 4; ἐν βραχυτάτω δηλουν to show very briefly, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 2, 15).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
βραχύς (few words)
Luke 22:58
- KJV: And after a little while another saw him and said Thou art also of them And Peter said Man I am not
- GK: και μετά βραχύ έτερος ιδών αυτόν έφη και συ εξ αυτών ει ο δε Πέτρος είπεν άνθρωπε ουκ ειμί
John 6:7
- KJV: Philip answered him Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little
- GK: απεκρίθη αυτώ Φίλιππος διακοσίων δηναρίων άρτοι ουκ αρκούσιν αυτοίς ίνα έκαστος αυτών βραχύ τι λάβη
Acts 5:34
- KJV: Then stood there up one in the council a Pharisee named Gamaliel a doctor of the law had in reputation among all the people commanded to put the apostles forth a little space
- GK: αναστάς δε τις εν τω συνεδρίω Φαρισαίος ονόματι Γαμαλιήλ νομοδιδάσκαλος τίμιος παντί τω λαώ εκέλευσεν έξω βραχύ τι τους αποστόλους ποιήσαι
Acts 27:28
- KJV: And sounded and found twenty fathoms and when they had gone a little further they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms
- GK: και βολίσαντες εύρον οργυιάς είκοσι βραχύ δε διαστήσαντες και πάλιν βολίσαντες εύρον οργυιάς δεκαπέντε
Hebrews 2:7
- KJV: Thou madest him a little lower than the angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands
- GK: ηλάττωσας αυτόν βραχύ τι παρ΄ αγγέλους δόξη και τιμή εστεφάνωσας αυτόν και κατέστησας αυτόν επί τα έργα των χειρών σου
Hebrews 2:9
- KJV: But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man
- GK: τον δε βραχύ τι παρ΄ αγγέλους ηλαττωμένον βλέπομεν Ιησούν διά το πάθημα του θανάτου δόξη και τιμή εστεφανωμένον όπως χάριτι θεού υπέρ παντός γεύσηται θανάτου
Hebrews 13:22
- KJV: And I beseech you brethren suffer the word of exhortation for I have written a letter unto you in few words
- GK: παρακαλώ δε υμάς αδελφοί ανέχεσθε του λόγου της παρακλήσεως και γαρ διά βραχέων επέστειλα υμίν