- Transliteration: Phortion

- Phonetic: for-tee'-on

- Definition:

1. a burden, load

a. of the freight or lading of a ship

2. metaph.

a. of burdensome rites

b. of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a "burden" by way of the contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees, the observance of which was most oppressive

c. faults of the conscience which oppress the soul

- Origin: diminutive of G5414" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5414

- TDNT entry: 10:24,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Diminutive of G5414" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5414; an invoice (as part of freight) that is (figuratively) a task or service: - burden.