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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3018

יְגִיעַ

yegiayeg-ee'-ah

toil

16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: yᵉgîyaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3018is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3018

toil; hence, a work, produce, property (as the result of labor)

The King James renders it: labour, work.

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

yegia is rendered "toil". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

Genesis 31:42יְגִ֧יַע

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • toil of3
  • product of2
  • and from property his1
  • and result of toil their1
  • and toil your1
  • labor its1
  • produce of1
  • property his1
  • property its1
  • property your1
  • result of toil your1
  • toil your1

and 1 more, 16 uses in all

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.

יְגִעָהyegiahwearinessUses1

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 spellings 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

  • יְגִ֣יעַ2
  • יְגִ֥יעַ2
  • וִיגִיעֲכֶ֖ם1
  • וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗ם1
  • וּמִ֣יגִיע֔וֹ1
  • יְגִ֨יעַ1
  • יְגִ֧יַע1
  • יְגִיעָ֣הּ1
  • יְגִיעָ֖הּ1
  • יְגִיעֽוֹ׃1
  • יְגִיעַ֕י1
  • יְגִ֣יעֲךָ֔1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms

Genesis

one use
  • If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

    Genesis 31:42

    • יְגִ֧יַעyegiya'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: toil of

Deuteronomy

one use
  • A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

    Deuteronomy 28:33

    • יְגִ֣יעֲךָ֔yegiakhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: result of toil your

Nehemiah

one use
  • I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

    Nehemiah 5:13

    • וּמִ֣יגִיע֔וֹumigioconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and from property his

Job

three uses
  • Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

    Job 10:3

    • יְגִ֣יעַyegia'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: product of
  • Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

    Job 39:11

    • יְגִיעֶֽךָ׃yegiekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: toil your
  • She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

    Job 39:16

    • יְגִיעָ֣הּyegiahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: labor its

Psalms

three uses
  • He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

    Psalms 78:46

    • וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗םvigiamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and result of toil their
  • May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

    Psalms 109:11

    • יְגִיעֽוֹ׃yegionoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: property his
  • For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

    Psalms 128:2

    • יְגִ֣יעַyegia'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: product of

Isaiah

two uses
  • This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

    Isaiah 45:14

    • יְגִ֨יעַyegia'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: produce of
  • Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

    Isaiah 55:2

    • וִיגִיעֲכֶ֖םvigiakhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and toil your

Jeremiah

two uses
  • From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

    Jeremiah 3:24

    • יְגִ֥יעַyegia'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: toil of
  • I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

    Jeremiah 20:5

    • יְגִיעָ֖הּyegiahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: property its

Ezekiel

one use
  • They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

    Ezekiel 23:29

    • יְגִיעֵ֔ךְyegiekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: property your

Hosea

one use
  • And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

    Hosea 12:8

    • יְגִיעַ֕יyegiainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: toils my

Haggai

one use
  • I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

    Haggai 1:11

    • יְגִ֥יעַyegia'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: toil of

The letters

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 TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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