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Labor
Verses
132 results- VerseExodus 20:9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- VerseDeuteronomy 5:13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Verse2 Corinthians 6:5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
- VersePsalms 48:6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
- VerseProverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
People
3 results- PersonAquilaA Jewish tentmaker of Pontus who, with his wife Priscilla, labored alongside Paul and "laid down their own necks" for him (Rom 16:3-4; Acts 18).
- PersonEuodiaPhilippian laborer in the gospel, exhorted with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord (Php 4:2-3) — women who labored with Paul, whose names are in the book of life.
- PersonSyntychePhilippian laborer in the gospel, exhorted with Euodia to be of the same mind in the Lord (Php 4:2-3).
Words (Strong's)
23 results- WordH4639 מַעֲשֶׂה · maʻăseh (Hebrew)an action (good or bad). The Hebrew word stands 236 times in the original text.
- WordH6089 עֶצֶב · ʻetseb (Hebrew)an earthen vessel. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH213 אוּץ · ʼûwts (Hebrew)to press. The Hebrew word stands 10 times in the original text.
- WordG2038 ἐργάζομαι · ergázomai (Greek)to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc. The Greek word stands 41 times in the original text.
- WordH5673 עֲבִידָה · ʻăbîydâh (Hebrew)labor or business. The Hebrew word stands 6 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
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8 results- VoiceGregory of NeocaesareaHe was born Theodore, around 213, into a wealthy pagan family in Neocaesarea in Pontus, on the Black Sea coast of what is now Turkey. His father died when he was fourteen. He…
- VoiceCaesarius of ArlesCaesarius was born about 468 at Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy. At eighteen he asked his bishop for the clerical tonsure; two years later he left for Lérins, the island monastery…
- VoiceOrigen of AlexandriaOrigen was about seventeen when the persecution under Septimius Severus took his father. Leonides was arrested at Alexandria in 202 and beheaded, and his property was…
- VoiceIrenaeusIrenaeus was born in Smyrna, in Asia Minor, around 130. As a boy he sat and listened to Polycarp, the old bishop of that city, and he never forgot it. Writing decades later to…
- VoiceHesychius of JerusalemHesychius was a priest and monk of Jerusalem in the first half of the fifth century. Cyril of Scythopolis, writing a century later, describes him as a great teacher of the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
3 results- Study resourceSirach 7:15Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most High hath ordained.
- Study resource1 Enoch 103:9Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life: “In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble, And met with much evil and been…
- Study resource1 Enoch 103:11We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become the food of the sinners and the…
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H4639מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh — an action (good or bad)H6089עֶצֶב ʻetseb — an earthen vesselH213אוּץ ʼûwts — to pressG2038ἐργάζομαι ergázomai — to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by
implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.H5673עֲבִידָה ʻăbîydâh — labor or businessG4904συνεργός synergós — a co-laborer,
i.e. coadjutor