Words the Bible translates as travail
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ponosπόνοςtravailnot studied yet
- 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
- ōdinὠδίνa birth pang: the gripping pain of labor, used in the New Testament as a picture of anguish that seizes suddenly and cannot be escaped
- ḥavalחָבַלto take or hold something as a pledge: to seize a borrower's property as security for a debt
+2 more meanings
- to ruin or destroy: to do violent harm, spoil, or act corruptly
- to writhe in labor: to conceive or be gripped by the pangs of giving birth
- inyanעִנְיָןthe business that occupies a person: the task, affair, or activity that fills up someone's time and attention
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