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

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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