Overcharge
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
or baruno, is rendered "overcharged" in Luke 21:34 . See Burden , B, No. 1.
is rendered "overcharge" in 2—Corinthians 2:5 , AV. See Burden , B, No. 2, and Press
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) An excessive charge in an account.
(2): ( v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
(3): ( v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
(4): ( v. i.) To make excessive charges.
(5): ( n.) An excessive load or burden.
(6): ( v. t.) To fill too full; to crowd.
(7): ( v. t.) To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
King James Dictionary [3]
OVERCH'ARGE,
1. To charge or load to excess to cloy to oppress.
The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature -
2. To crowd too much.
Our language is overcharged with consonants.
3. To burden. 4. To fill to excess to surcharge as, to overcharge the memory. 5. To load with too great a charge, as a gun. 6. To charge too much to enter in an account more than is just.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ō - vẽr - charj ´: Luke 21:34 , "lest haply your hearts be overcharged with drunkenness" (βαρύνω , barúnō , "burden," here with the force "be occupied with"); 2 Corinthians 2:5 , the King James Version "that I may not overcharge you" (ἐπιβαρέω , epibaréō , "overload"), the Revised Version (British and American) "that I press not too heavily." See Charges .
