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# יְגִעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3024

**wearying** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wearying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3024/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְגִעָה: n.f. wearying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3024/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wearying (late format., DrIntr. 455 SiegfNH Gram. § 47 b) וְלַהַג הַרְבֵּה יְגִעַת בָּשָׂר Ec 12:12 and studying much is a wearying of flesh.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] weariness (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.12/#tree)

וְיֹתֵ֥ר מֵהֵ֖מָּה בְּנִ֣י הִזָּהֵ֑ר עֲשׂ֨וֹת סְפָרִ֤ים הַרְבֵּה֙ אֵ֣ין קֵ֔ץ וְלַ֥הַג הַרְבֵּ֖ה יְגִעַ֥ת בָּשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* and excess more than.them my.child my be.warned to.make books many there.\[is\].not an.end and study much \[is\].weariness of.flesh

*JPS 1917:* And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3024.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3024/): 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).