Words the Bible translates as toil
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kopiaōκοπιάωto work to the point of exhaustion: to toil hard, and so to be worn out by the effort
- koposκόποςhard, wearying work; toil that costs real sweat, strength, and fatigue.
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- trouble or bother imposed on someone; the burden of being pestered or worn down.
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- mochthosμόχθοςtoilnot studied yet
- yagaיָגֵעַto wear out with hard effort: to toil to the point of weariness, to grow weary, or to wear another out
- yegi'aיְגִיעַhard, wearying labor, and by extension the earnings, produce, or property that such labor yields
- amalעָמַלto toil: to wear oneself out working hard at something
- amelעָמֵלthe person in wearing toil: someone working himself out at hard labor, or worn down by the hardship it brings
- etsevעֶצֶבhard, draining work and the hurt that comes with it: the strenuous labor of a fallen world and the pain that labor costs
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- a fashioned object, a clay pot, used of a person treated as a worthless, broken thing
- itstsavonעִצָּבוֹןpainful toil: the strenuous, grinding labor that wears down the body and weighs on the heart, the kind of effort that the curse made the human lot
- yagaיָגָעtoilnot studied yet
- te'unתְּאֻנִיםtoilnot studied yet
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