Quick Definition
βρόχος, ου, ὁ n.m. a noose or snare
Strong's Definition
a noose
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: snare
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου
37.2 · Control, Rule · Control, Restrain
Collocation: βρόχον ἐπιβάλλω
to restrict, to control, to impose restrictions (an idiom, literally: to throw a bridle on) to place restrictions upon someone’s behavior It may, however, be important in some languages to express more clearly the intent involved, and therefore one might wish to translate this clause in 1CO 7:35 as ‘my purpose is not to try to control you’ or ‘... to tell you just what you must do.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βρόχος, -ov, 6, a noose, slip-knot, by which any person or thing is caught, or fastened, or suspended, (fr. Hom. down) : βρύχον ἐπιβάλλειν τινί to throw a noose upon one, a fig. expression borrowed from war [or the chase] (so Bp. περιβάλλειν τινί, Philo, vit. Moys. iii. § 34; Joseph. b. j. 7, 7,4), i. e. by eraft or by force to bind one to some necessity, to constrain him to obey some command, 1 Co. Vii. 35.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βρόχος brochos 1x
a cord, noose, 1 Cor. 7:35*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βρόχος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Pr 6:5 (יָד) 7:21 (חֵלֶק) 22:25 (מֹוקֵשׁ), III Mac 4:8 * ;]
a noose, a slip-knot, a halter: metaph., a restraint (not, as AV, R, txt., a snare): I Co 7:35.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βρόχος (brochos) — restraint. βρόχος, ὁ, noose, slip-knot, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; snare for birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; mesh of a net, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχων νομοθετεῖν 'with a halter round one's neck', [Refs 4th c.BC+] should be written in [Refs 6th c.BC+]