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To carry

βαστάζωStrong’s G0941

bastazō

Appears in 27 verses of the New Testament

In short

Bastazō is the Greek word usually translated “carry”, “having borne” and “carrying”. It appears in 27 verses of the New Testament.

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”
Matthew 3:11 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “carry”, “having borne” and “carrying”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to carry 2
  • having borne 2
  • carrying 2
  • bearing 2
  • to bear 2
  • bore 1
  • do carry 1
  • carries 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 5
  • John 5
  • Acts 4
  • Galatians 4
  • Matthew 3
  • Revelation 3

8 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 27 verses, by book
Matthew 3
3:118:1720:12
Mark 1
14:13
Romans 2
11:1815:1
Galatians 4
5:106:26:56:17
Revelation 3
2:22:317:7
Greek dictionary

βαστάζω bastazō · to carry

βαστάζω, [in LXX: Jdg.16:30 (נטה), Rut.2:16, 2Ki.23:5, 4Ki.18:14 and Job.21:3 (נשׂא), Sir.6:25, Da TH Bel 36 * ;] 1. to take up with the hands, to lift: λίθους, Jhn.10:31. 2. to bear, to carry, as a burden, and metaphorically, to endure; Mat.3:11 20:12, Mrk.14:13, Luk.7:14 10:7 11:27 14:27 22:10, Jhn.16:12 19:17, Act.3:2 9:15 15:1 21:35, Rom.11:18 15:1, Gal.5:10 6:2, 5 17, Rev.2:2, 3 17:7. 3. In late writers (MM, Exp., ii, iii, x), (a) to take away; Mat.8:17 (Isa.53:4, Heb.); (b) to carry off, steal: Jhn.12:6 20:15. † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “carry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CARRY, verb transitive

  1. To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft.“He shall carry the lambs in his bosom” Isaiah 40:11“When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away” Psalms 49:17
  2. To convey; as sound is carried in the air.
  3. To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it.
  4. To bear out; to face through.
All definitions and other forms of “carry”
  1. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse.
  2. To bear; to have.
  3. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view.
  4. To imply or import.
  5. To contain or comprise.
  6. To extend or continue in time, as to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle, as to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.
  7. To extend in space, as to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense, as to carry ideas very far.
  8. To support or sustain.
  9. To bear or produce, as trees.
  10. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
  11. To carry ones self, to behave, conduct or demean.
  12. To remove, lead or drive.“And he carried away all his cattle” Genesis 31:18
  13. To remove; to cause to go.“And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria” 2 Kings 18:11
  14. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind.
  15. To fetch and bring.
  16. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger.
  17. to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace.
  18. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry.
  19. To prosecute, continue or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war.

CARRY, verb intransitive

  1. To run on rotten ground, or on frost, which sticks to the feet, as a hare.
  2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse.
  3. To convey; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well; but this is elliptical.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.