Toil
יְגִיעַStrong’s H3018yegia (ye-gi-a)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yegia is the Hebrew word usually translated “toil of”, “product of” and “result of toil your”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.”
Meaning
- Toil, work
- Product, produce, acquired property (as a result of work)
How it's translated
- toil of 3
- product of 2
- result of toil your 1
- and from property his 1
- toil your 1
- labor its 1
- and result of toil their 1
- property his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
- Nehemiah 5:13Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
- Job 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Job 39:11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
- Job 39:16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
- Psalms 78:46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Hebrew dictionary
יְגִיעַ yegia · toil
1) toil, work 2) product, produce, acquired property (as a result of work)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “toil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOIL, verb intransitive
To labor; to work; to exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration.
- “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing” Luke 5:5
All definitions and other forms of “toil”
TOIL, verb transitive
To toil out, to labor; to work out.
- To weary; to overlabor; as toil'd with works of war.
TOIL, noun
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind. toil may be the labor of the field or the workshop, or of the camp. What toils men endure for the acquisition of wealth, power and honor!
TOIL, noun
[Latin tela, a web; from spreading, extending or laying.]
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.