STRONGS G1024:
βραχύς,
-εῖα,
-ύ,
short, small, little, (from Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides down);
a. of place; neuter
βραχύ adverbially,
a short distance, a little:
Acts 27:28 (
2 Samuel 16:1; Thucydides 1, 63).
b. of time;
βραχύ τι a short time, for a little while:
Hebrews 2:7,
9, (where the writer transfers to time what the
Sept. in
Psalm 8:6 says of rank);
Acts 5:34 [here
L T Tr WH omit
τι];
μετὰ βραχύ shortly after, Luke 22:58.
c. of quantity and measure;
βραχύ τι [Tr text WH omits; L Tr marginal reading brackets
τι]
some little part,
a little:
John 6:7 (
βραχύ τι τοῦ μέλιτος,
1 Samuel 14:29;
ἔλαιον βραχύ, Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 2;
βραχύτατος λιβανωτός, Philo de vict. off. § 4);
διὰ βραχέων in few namely, words, briefly,
Hebrews 13:22 (so [Plato, Demosthenes, others (cf. Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited)] Josephus,
b. j. 4, 5, 4;
ἐν βραχυτάτῳ δηλοῦν to show very briefly, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 2, 15).
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