Quick Definition
δυσβάστακτος, ον Adj difficult to carry
Strong's Definition
from 1418 and a derivative of 941; oppressive
KJV Usage: grievous to be borne
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | δῦσ- + βαστάζω
22.34 · Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances · Difficult, Hard
difficult, hard to bear pertaining to that which is difficult to bear or endure
1 LUK 11:46 It is sometimes possible to render δυσβάστακτος as ‘difficult to carry,’ provided the receptor language term for burdens in LUK 11:46 may refer to religious obligations.
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δυσβάστακτος dysbastaktos 1x
difficult or grievous to be borne, oppressive, Lk. 11:46
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δυσ-βάστακτος, -ον
(< βαστάζω), [in LXX for נֵטֶל, Pr 27:3 * ;]
hard to be borne: Mt 23:4 (om. WH, txt., R, mg.), Lk 11:46.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δυσβαστακτος (late Attic), which arose phonetically out of δνοῖν (BrugmannThumb G*. p. 78), appears in several papyri, as P Par 1293 (the Eudoxus astronomical treatise—c. B.C. 165) δυεῖν μηνῶν Χρόνος, P Ryl II. 1098 (a.p. 235) πατὴρ τῶ[ν] Svetv—the document has υἱξας later !, 2. 2695 (ii/A.D.) ἐκ δυεῖν οἰκ[ῶ]ν —this document also betrays artificial dialect by the ὁ“ registering” historic present τελευτᾷ (/voleg. p. 120), 74. 357 (A.D. 201-11) ἀρουρῶν δυεῖν, P Oxy VIII. 1117%8 (c. A.D. 178) ἐκ δυεῖν rakavTwy—here again there is some fine writing in the context, a petition to a Praefect, who would no doubt be impressed by it. Greek dialects pluralized the flexion in different ways—see Brugmann-Thumb G7. p. 249 f. In Hellenistic we have dat. δυσίν, fassé in all our documents, and to a very limited extent gen. δυῶν : see Mayser, Gr. p. 314, who can only quote OG/S 56% (B.c. 239-8—the Canopus decree) ἐκ σταχύων δυῶν (in copy A), and BGU I. 2879 (ii/A.D.) ἀρουρῶν Svav—it is ancient Ionic (Herod. and Flippocrates) aud Cretan Doric (Gortyn Inscr.). That in MGr δυῶν(ε) occurs occasionally (Thumb Hands. p. 81) may show that the form ran underground to emerge in a few places, but it might be independent analogy. Avety is Ionic (frst in Hippocrates), as we might expect from that dialect s early sacrifice of the dual. With the indeclinable δύο for nom., acc. and gen., it forms the whole of the Κοινή flexion. (The pre-classical δύω, which lived on in δ(υ)ώδεκα, is cited by Mayser (p. 313) from P Leid Ti (p.c. 164-0) and P Grenf II. 3813 (B.c. 81) —but there are other cases of for o in this last document by sheer miswriting.) Mayser makes Sy// 1776 (Teos, B.c. 304) the oldest inscriptional warrant for δυσί, which appears in literature before Aristotle. In Attic inserr. (Meisterhans, p. 157) δυεῖν supplants δυοῖν in Alexander's time, and lasts a century, δυσί beginning in iii/B.c. On δύο δύο see Proleg. p. 97 : add to illustrate ἀνὰ δύο δύο P Oxy VI. 886!® (magical—iii/A.p.) épe κατὰ δύο δύο, “lift them up two by two” (Edd.). It may be noted that οἱ δύο supplants ἄμφω, as in Mk 1c8 etc., P Giss 1. 2115.14 (B.C.173) μάρτυρες Φίλιος Μακεδών, Δημοκρατίων Θέσσαλος, οἱ δύο τῶν Κινέου, and οἱ δύο τῆς ἐπιγονῆς τἴτὸ document has also οἱ τρεῖς. MGr has κ᾽ οἱ δυό, ‘‘ both,” οἱ δυό μας, ** both of us.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
δυσβάστακτος (dusbastaktos) — ponderous. δῠσ-βάστακτος, ον, intolerable, grievous to be borne, [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]; of persons, [Refs 4th c.BC+]