Toil
עֶ֫צֶבStrong’s H6089etsev (e-tsev)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Etsev is the Hebrew word usually translated “pain”, “labors” and “labor your”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Meaning
- Pain, hurt, toil, sorrow, labour, hardshippain · hurt, offense · toil, hardship
- Vessel, creation, object
- (TWOT) idol
How it's translated
- with pain 1
- labors 1
- and labor your 1
- sorrow 1
- hard labor 1
- hurt 1
- a pot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Proverbs 5:10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
- Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
- Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
- Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
- Jeremiah 22:28Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫צֶב etsev · toil
1) pain, hurt, toil, sorrow, labour, hardship 1a) pain 1b) hurt, offense 1c) toil, hardship
עֶ֫צֶב etsev · vessel
1) vessel, creation, object 2) (TWOT) idol
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.