What does ὄγκος (ónkos) mean in the Bible?
ὄγκος (ónkos): Encumbrance weighing down spiritual progress; the bulk or mass that hinders forward movement in faith
Greek · G3591
ὄγκος
Impediment
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ὄγκοςG3591
Pronunciationónkos
What does ὄγκος (ónkos) mean in the Bible?
ὄγκος (ónkos): Encumbrance weighing down spiritual progress; the bulk or mass that hinders forward movement in faith
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How does the BSB render G3591?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include encumbrance (1).
Where does ὄγκος (ónkos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Hebrews 12:1. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itencumbrance1×Hebrews 12:1
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First aligned rowHebrews 12:1
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Hebrews1
Source forms
ὄγκον1xonkonHebrews 12:1
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular1xHebrews 12:1
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Encumbrance weighing down spiritual progress; the bulk or mass that hinders forward movement in faith
Strong'sG3591
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
impediment
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Encumbrance weighing down spiritual progress; the bulk or mass that hinders forward movement in faith
bulk, mass; metaphorically, an encumbrance: Heb.12:1.
Synonymsβάρος, a weight; φορτίον, a burden, that which is borne
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Hebrews 12:1Noun Accusative Singular Masculine
ὄγκονogkon
a weight, burden
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · MasculineHeb 12:11×
Word Origins
ὄγκος is built from this root:
ἀγκάληG43