יְגִיעַyᵉgîyaʻ
toil, product
Pronunciation: yeg-ee'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3018
Meanings
1. toil (Genesis 31:42; Job 39:11; Job 39:16)
2. product, produce, acquired property, result of toil (Hosea 12:9; Deuteronomy 28:33; Psalms 78:46)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:42 In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”
- Deuteronomy 28:33 A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
- Nehemiah 5:13 I shook out the folds of my robe and said, “If you fail to keep your promise, may God shake you like this from your homes and from your property!” The whole assembly responded, “Amen,” and they praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
- Job 10:3 What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 39:11 Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?
- Job 39:16 She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not her own. She doesn’t care if they die.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).