Toil
עִצָּבוֹןStrong’s H6093itstsavon (its-tsa-von)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Itstsavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “pain your”, “pain” and “from pain of”. It appears in 3 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, labour, hardship, sorrow, toil
How it's translated
- pain your 1
- in pain 1
- and from pain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
- Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Hebrew dictionary
עִצָּבוֹן itstsavon · toil
pain, labour, hardship, sorrow, toil
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.