bareo describes being weighed down by an affliction, concern, obligation, or sleep.

The verb most often marks people or a community as weighed down by an affliction, an obligation, bodily mortality, or life’s concerns; it also describes sleep making people’s eyes or bodies heavy.

1. Weighed down by pressure or obligation · dominant

   In 1 Timothy 5:16 the present passive form occurs in the instruction that the church not be burdened while believers assist widows. In 2 Corinthians 1:8 the speakers are burdened beyond their power amid affliction, while 2 Corinthians 5:4 places the present passive participle with groaning in the tent; Luke 21:34 warns that hearts may be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life.

   1 Timothy 5:162 Corinthians 1:82 Corinthians 5:4Luke 21:34
2. Made heavy with sleep · common

   The perfect passive participle describes Peter and those with him as burdened with sleep in Luke 9:32. The same form occurs when Jesus finds the disciples sleeping in Matthew 26:43, where the APB renders the reason as their eyes being “heavy.”

   Luke 9:32Matthew 26:43

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “burdened” for the church, the afflicted speakers, and those groaning in the tent; it uses “weighed down” for hearts and “heavy” for eyes. These renderings present the verse clauses rather than providing a word-for-word alignment.