UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: βρόχος; -ου

Sense 1: to restrict, to control, to impose restrictions

Semantic entry: 37.2

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw a bridle on) to place restrictions upon someone’s behavior

Notes: 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 OET CO1 7:35 as ‘my purpose is not to try to control you’ or ‘… to tell you just what you must do.’

Collocations: βρόχον ἐπιβάλλω

Show passage in OET: CO1 7:35

OET-RV CO1 7:35

35 Now I said all that for your benefit—not to load you all with rules, but to act in ways that are appropriate and devoted to the master without any distractions.

OET-LV CO1 7:35

35 And this for the thing of _you _all yourselves benefit I _am _saying, not in _order _that a_noose on _you _all I _may _put _on, but for what is proper and devoted to _the master undistractedly.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

βρόχος

Form 1

Sense 1: to restrict, to control, to impose restrictions