Hardship
תְּלָאָהStrong’s H8513telaah (te-la-ah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Telaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hardship”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.”
Meaning
- Toil, hardship, distress, weariness
How it's translated
- the hardship 3
- and hardship 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Lamentations 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 20:14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
- Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
- Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּלָאָה telaah · hardship
toil, hardship, distress, weariness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hardship” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
H'ARDSHIP, noun
Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; whatever oppresses the body.
- Injury; oppression; injustice.
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.