Strong's Concordance brachus: short, little Original Word: βραχύς, εῖα, ύPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: brachus Phonetic Spelling: (brakh-ooce') Short Definition: short, little Definition: short, little, few. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1024: βραχύςβραχύς, βραχεια, βραχύ, short, small, little (from Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides down); a. of place; neuter βραχύ adverbially, a short distance, a little: Acts 27:28 (2 Samuel 16:1; Thucydides 1, 63). b. of time; βραχύ τί a short time, for a little while: Hebrews 2:7, 9, (where the writer transfers to time what the Sept. in Psalm 8:6 says of rank); Acts 5:34 (here L T Tr WH omit τί); μετά βραχύ shortly after, Luke 22:58. c. of quantity and measure; βραχύ τί (Tr text WH omits; L Tr marginal reading brackets τί) some little part, a little: John 6:7 (βραχύ τί τοῦ μέλιτος, 1 Samuel 14:29; ἔλαιον βραχύ, Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 2; βραχυτατος λιβανωτός, Philo de vict. off. § 4); διά βραχέων in few namely, words, briefly, Hebrews 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). Of uncertain affinity; short (of time, place, quantity, or number) -- few words, little (space, while). Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 10247 Occurrences βραχέων — 1 Occ. βραχὺ — 6 Occ. Luke 22:58 Adj-ANS GRK: καὶ μετὰ βραχὺ ἕτερος ἰδὼν NAS: A little later, another KJV: And after a little while another saw INT: And after a little another having seen John 6:7 Adj-ANS Acts 5:34 Adj-ANS Acts 27:28 Adj-ANS Hebrews 2:7 Adj-ANS Hebrews 2:9 Adj-ANS Hebrews 13:22 Adj-GNP |