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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8513

תְּלָאָה

telaahtel-aw-aw'

hardship

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

Concordance spelling: tᵉlâʼâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8513is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 5
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8513

distress

The King James renders it: travail, travel, trouble.

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

telaah is rendered "hardship". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 18:8Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
  • The Greek text spells it five different ways.

The first use

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

Exodus 18:8הַתְּלָאָה֙

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

Where the word stands

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

The other 34 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

  • the hardship3
  • and hardship1
  • what weariness1

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.

תְּלָתtelaththreeUses11
תְּלוּנָהtelunahmurmuringUses8
תְּלַתtelaththirdUses2
תְּלִיתַיtelithaythirdUses2
תְּלָתִיןtelathinthirtyUses2
תְּלַגtelagsnowUses1
תְּלִיteliquiverUses1

All 5, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

5 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

  • הַתְּלָאָה֙1
  • הַתְּלָאָ֖ה1
  • הַתְּלָאָ֣ה1
  • וּתְלָאָֽה׃1
  • מַתְּלָאָ֜ה1

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
  • question word + noun · feminine singular1HPi/Ncfsa

Exodus

one use
  • Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    Exodus 18:8

    • הַתְּלָאָה֙hatelaahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hardship

Numbers

one use
  • From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

    Numbers 20:14

    • הַתְּלָאָ֖הhatelaahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hardship

Nehemiah

one use
  • So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

    Nehemiah 9:32

    • הַתְּלָאָ֣הhatelaahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hardship

Lamentations

one use
  • He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    Lamentations 3:5

    • וּתְלָאָֽה׃utelaahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and hardship

Malachi

one use
  • You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.

    Malachi 1:13

    • מַתְּלָאָ֜הmatelaahquestion word + noun · feminine singulartagged: what weariness

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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