Bible Dictionaries
Cumber
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
lit., "to reduce to idleness or inactivity" (kata, "down," and argos, "idle"), is once rendered "cumber," Luke 13:7 . See ABOLISH.
lit., "to draw around" (peri), "draw away, distract," is used in the Passive Voice in the sense of being over-occupied about a thing, to be "cumbered," Luke 10:40 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Cumber'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/cumber.html. 1940.