Be weary/toil
יָגֵעַStrong’s H3021yaga (ya-ga)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaga is the Hebrew word usually translated “have labored”, “have become weary” and “make go wearily”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.”
Meaning
- To toil, labour, grow weary, be weary(Qal) · (Piel) to weary, make weary, cause to go toilsomely · (Hiphil) to make to toil, make weary, cause to be weary
How it's translated
- you have labored 3
- i have become weary 2
- you make go wearily 1
- you had labored 1
- it was weary 1
- will i labor 1
- you labor 1
- it wearies him 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 12
- Joshua 2
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 24:13And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
- 2 Samuel 23:10He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
- Job 9:29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Proverbs 23:4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Hebrew dictionary
יָגֵעַ yaga · be weary/toil
1) to toil, labour, grow weary, be weary 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to toil, labour 1a2) to grow weary, be weary 1b) (Piel) to weary, make weary, cause to go toilsomely 1c) (Hiphil) to make to toil, make weary, cause to be weary
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “labor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LA'BOR, noun
[Latin labor from labo, to fail.]
- Exertion of muscular strength, or bodily exertion which occasions weariness; particularly, the exertion of the limbs in occupations by which subsistence is obtained, as in agriculture and manufactures, in distinction from exertions of strength in play or amusements, which are denominated exercise, rather than labor Toilsome work; pains; travail; any bodily exertion which is attended with fatigue.
- Intellectual exertion; application of the mind which occasions weariness; as the labor of compiling and writing a history.
- Exertion of mental powers, united with bodily employment; as the labors of the apostles in propagating christianity.
- Work done, or to be done; that which requires wearisome exertion.
All definitions and other forms of “labor”
- Heroic achievement; as the labors of Hercules.
- Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- The evils of life; trials; persecution, etc.“They rest from their labors -” Revelation 14:13
LA'BOR, verb intransitive
[Latin laboro.]
- To exert muscular strength; to act or move with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.“Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work -” Exodus 20:9
- To exert one's powers of body or mind, or both, in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.“Labor not for the meat which perisheth” John 6:27
- To toil; to be burdened.“Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” Matthew 11:28
- To move with difficulty.
- To move irregularly with little progress; to pitch and roll heavily; as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- To be in distress; to be pressed.
- To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To journey or march.“Make not all the people to labor thither” Joshua 7:3
- To perform the duties of the pastoral office.
- To perform christian offices.
LA'BOR, verb transitive
- To work at; to till; to cultivate.
- To prosecute with effort; to urge; as, to labor a point or argument.
- To form or fabricate with exertion; as, to labor arms for Troy.
- To beat; to belabor. [The latter word is generally used.]
- To form with toil and care; as a labored composition.
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.