1. (v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

2. (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

CUMBER; CUMBERED

kum'-ber, (katargeo, "to make idle," perispaomai, "to be drawn about," in mind "to be distracted"): Spoken of the barren fig tree in the parable: "Cut it down; why doth it also cumber (block up, make unproductive) the ground?" (Luke 13:7). Cumbered means to be over-occupied with cares or business, distracted: "But Martha was cumbered about much serving" (Luke 10:40). The word cumbrance occurs only in Deuteronomy 1:12: "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance?" (Torach, "an encumbrance," "a burden"). Compare Isaiah 1:14, where the Revised Version, margin has "cumbrance," the Revised Version (British and American) "trouble."

2673. katargeo -- to render inoperative, abolish
... severed (1), use (1). abolish, cease, cumber, do away. From kata and argeo;
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or ...
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4049. perispao -- to draw away
... distract. From peri and spao; to drag all around, ie (figuratively) to distract
(with care) -- cumber. see GREEK peri. see GREEK spao. ...
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The Social Test of Religion
... he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on
this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground? ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter ix the social test.htm

Ancestry, Birth, Education, Environment: 1513(?)-1546
... Scottish Reformer. The sorrows, the "cumber" of which Knox was "alleged" to
bear the blame, did not end with his death. They persisted ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter i ancestry birth education.htm

The Holy Spirit.
... The Spirit loveth to do what it does in private: that man to whom God intendeth
to reveal great things, he taketh him aside from the lumber and cumber of this ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/viii the holy spirit.htm

Conversion.
... The straitness, the narrowness, must not be understood of the gate simply, but because
of that cumber that some men carry with them that pretend to be going to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xi conversion.htm

Now all the Woods are Sleeping,
... On earth no more we pine and weep. The body hastes to slumber,. These garments
now but cumber; And as I lay them by. I ponder how the spirit. ...
/.../winkworth/lyra germanica the christian year/ii now all the woods.htm

Liii. Repentance Enjoined. Parable of the Barren Fig-Tree.
... he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on
this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground? ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/liii repentance enjoined parable of.htm

The Fall of the Tower.
... he said unto the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on
this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground ...
//christianbookshelf.org/barton/his life/the fall of the tower.htm

St. Ambrose Gives Additional Rules Concerning Repentance, and ...
... who planted a fig-tree in his vineyard should come and seek fruit on it, and finding
none, say to the vine-dresser: "Cut it down, why doth it cumber the ground ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter i st ambrose gives.htm

Humiliation and Praise. (Imitated from the German. )
... A heart so vile as mine. Wondrous mercy I have found,. But ah! how faint my praise!
Must I be a cumber-ground,. Unfruitful all my days? Do I in thy garden grow, ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/hymn 56 humiliation and praise.htm

The Riches of Darkness are those which Men have Made
... waters cover the sea. Oh how they are ready to sink always under the burden
and cumber of devised wants! Verily, the prospect of ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/33 the riches of darkness.htm

Cumber (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CUMBER;
CUMBERED. ... Multi-Version Concordance Cumber (1 Occurrence). ...
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Cumbered (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Cumber. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. CUMBER; CUMBERED. kum'-ber, (katargeo, "to make ...
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Vinedresser (2 Occurrences)
... he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on
this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground? ...
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Cultured (1 Occurrence)

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Cumber (1 Occurrence)

Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
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Cumbered (1 Occurrence)

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Cultured (1 Occurrence)

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