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# יְגִיעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3018

**toil** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

toil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3018/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְגִיעַ: n.m. toil, product [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3018/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. toil, product;—cstr. יְגִיעַ Gn 31:42 + 5 times; sf. יְגִיעֲךָ Dt 28:33; יְגִיעֶ֑ךָ Jb 39:11; יְגִיעֵךְ Ez 23:29; יְגִיעוֹ ψ 109:11 Ne 5:13; יְגִיעָהּ Jb 39:16 Je 20:5; וִיגִיעֲכֶם Is 55:2; וִיגִיעָם ψ 78:46; pl. sf. יְגִיעַי Ho 12:9 (but יְגִיעָיו 𝔊 Che);— toil, יג׳ כַּפַּיִם Gn 31:42 (E; ‖ עֳנִי), Jb 39:11 (= husbandry), laying of eggs 39:16. result of toil, product, produce, acquired property: יְגִיעַי Ho 12:9 (‖ אוֹן, on text v. supr.), Dt 28:33 (‖ פְּרִי אדמתך), ψ 78:46 (‖ יְבוּל); יְגִיעַ כַּפַּיִם 128:2, Hg 1:11 (‖ דָּגָן, תִּירוֹשׁ, יִצְהָר, אֲשֶׁר תּוֹצִיא הָאֲדָמָה, אָדָם, בְּהֵמָה); Ne 5:13 (‖ בית), ψ 109:11 (‖ כל־אשׁר־לוֹ), Is 45:14 (יגיע מצרים, ‖ סַחַר־כּוּשׁ), 55:2 (‖ כֶּסֶף), Je 3:24 (‖ צֹאן, בָּקָר, בָּנִים, בָּנוֹת), 20:5 (‖ חֹסֶן, יָקָר, of city), Ez 23:29; of Job as product of God’s hands (יְג׳ כַּפֶּיךָ) Jb 10:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: property (4); the toil (4); toil (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 128:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.2/#tree)

יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֭פֶּיךָ כִּ֣י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.toil your.hands your (dm) you.will.eat how blessed.\[are\].you! and good \[will belong\].to.you

*JPS 1917:* When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

[Psalms 109:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.11/#tree)

יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נ֭וֹשֶׁה לְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֑וֹ וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* may.he.strike a.creditor to all that \[belongs\].to him and may.they.plunder strangers property his

*JPS 1917:* Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3018.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3018/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).