Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6045
עִנְיָן
inyanin-yawn'
task
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻinyân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6045is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6045
ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
The King James renders it: business, travail.
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
inyan is rendered "task". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 1:13And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
Ecclesiastes 1:13עִנְיַ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the task2
- a task1
- a task of1
- and a task of1
- business1
- in a business of1
- task his1
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- בְּעִנְיַ֣ן1
- הָֽעִנְיָ֗ן1
- הָ֣עִנְיָ֔ן1
- וְעִנְיַ֥ן1
- עִנְיַ֣ן1
- עִנְיָ֜ן1
- עִנְיָ֑ן1
- עִנְיָנ֔וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Ecclesiastes
eight uses
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- עִנְיַ֣ןʾinyannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a task of
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
- עִנְיָנ֔וֹinyanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: task his
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- עִנְיָ֜ןʾinyannoun · masculine singulartagged: a task
I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
- הָֽעִנְיָ֗ןhainyanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the task
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
- וְעִנְיַ֥ןveinyanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a task of
As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
- עִנְיָ֑ןʾinyannoun · masculine singulartagged: business
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- בְּעִנְיַ֣ןbeinyanpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in a business of
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
- הָ֣עִנְיָ֔ןhainyanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the task
The letters
Gematria 180· 830 mispar gadol
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.