Sweat
זֵעָהStrong’s H2188zeah (ze-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zeah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sweat of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Meaning
- Sweat
How it's translated
- by sweat of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זֵעָה zeah · sweat
sweat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sweat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWEAT, noun
swet. [Latin sudor.]
- The fluid or sensible moisture which issues out of the pores of the skin of an animal.“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” Genesis 3:19
- Labor; toil; drudgery.
- Moisture evacuated from any substance; as the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
All definitions and other forms of “sweat”
SWEAT, verb intransitive
swet. preterit tense and participle passive sweat or sweated. Swot is obsolete. [Latin sudo.]
- To emit sensible moisture through the pores of the skin; to perspire.
- To toil; to labor; to drudge.
- To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
SWEAT, verb transitive
swet. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exsude.
- To cause to emit moisture from the pores of the skin.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.