ΦΟΡΤΙΚΟΣ, φορτικος
PHORTIKOS, phortikos
Sounds Like: for-tee-KOS
Translations: burdensome, heavy, troublesome, annoying, oppressive
From the root: ΦΟΡΤΙΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is difficult to bear, carry, or deal with. It can refer to a physical weight, but more often it describes something that is troublesome, annoying, or oppressive in a metaphorical sense, such as a person's behavior or a situation. It implies a sense of being a burden or causing discomfort.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5458 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 21:18
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΟΡΤΙΚΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΦΟΡΤΙΚΟΝ — burdensome, heavy, oppressive, a burdensome thing
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