3591 - ogkos

Strong's Concordance

Original word: ὄγκος
Transliteration: ogkos
Definition (short): encumbrance
Definition (full): bulk, an encumbrance

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: of uncertain origin
Definition: bulk, an encumbrance
NASB Translation: encumbrance (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Probably from the same as agkale; a mass (as bending or bulging by its load), i.e. Burden (hindrance) -- weight.

see GREEK agkale

References

Strong's 3591: 1 Occurrences
KJV: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
NASB: Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,