Original Word: βραδύνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: bradunó
Phonetic Spelling: (brad-oo'-no)
Definition: to retard, to be slow
Usage: I am slow, I delay, tarry.

Cognate: 1019 bradýnō – loiter, be unduly slow. "The word implies, besides delay, the idea of lateness with reference to an appointed time" (M. Vincent). See 1021 (bradys).

Word Origin
from bradus
Definition
to retard, to be slow
NASB Translation
am delayed (1), slow (1).

STRONGS NT 1019: βραδύνω

βραδύνω; (βραδύς); to delay, be slow;

1. rarely transitive, to render slow, retard: τήν σωτηρίαν, the Sept. Isaiah 46:13; passive ὁδός, Sophocles El. 1501 (cf. O. C. 1628). Mostly

2. intransitive, "to be long, to tarry, loiter (so from Aeschylus down): 1 Timothy 3:15; unusually, with the genitive of the thing which one delays to effect, 2 Peter 3:9 τῆς ἐπαγγελίας (A. V. is not slack concerning his promise) i. e. to fulfil his promise; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6 b. (Sir. 32:22 (Sir. 35:22.)

hesitate, delay, tarry.

From bradus; to delay -- be slack, tarry.

see GREEK bradus

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