Cumbered
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Luke 10:40
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G4049 Used 1 time
CUMBER, verb transitive [G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve.]
1. To load; to crowd.
A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.
2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.
3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.
Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10:40.
4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]
CUMBER, noun Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress.
Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used.]
CUMBERSOME, adjective
1. Troublesome; burdensome; embarrassing; vexatious; as cumbersome obedience.
2. Unwieldy; unmanageable not easily borne or managed; as a cumbersome load; a cumbersome machine.
CUMBERSOMELY, adverb In a manner to encumber.
CUMBERSOMENESS, noun Burdensomeness; the quality of being cumbersome and troublesome.