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Greek verb · G5003

ταλαιπωρέω

talaiporeotal-ahee-po-reh'-o

to do hard labour, suffer hardship or distress; In cl. occasionally trans., to weary, distress (so

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: talaipōréō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5003is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5003

to be wretched, i.e. realize one's own misery

The King James renders it: be afflicted.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

talaiporeo is rendered "to do hard labour, suffer hardship or distress; In cl. occasionally trans., to weary, distress (so". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to do hard labour, suffer hardship or distress".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

The first use

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

James 4:9ταλαιπωρήσατε

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to do hard labour, suffer hardship or distress, and In cl. occasionally trans., to weary, distress (so.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to do hard labour, suffer hardship or distressJas.4:9.Tagged as
  • do be grieved1
WhereJames 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
In cl. occasionally trans., to weary, distress (soPsa.17:9Tagged aslisted under the tableWherePsalms 17:9from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

τάλαντονtalantontalentUses14
ταλαιπωρίαtalaiporiamiseryUses2
ταλαίπωροςtalaiporoswretchedUses2
ταλαντιαῖοςtalantiaiosweighing a talentUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ταλαιπωρήσατε1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural1V-AAM-2P

James

one use
  • Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

    James 4:9

    • ταλαιπωρήσατεtalaiporesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do be grieved

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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