Toil
יָגָעStrong’s H3022yaga (ya-ga)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yaga is the Hebrew word usually translated “gain”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.”
Meaning
- Earnings, gain (product of labour)
How it's translated
- gain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יָגָע yaga · toil
earnings, gain (product of labour)
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.