תְּלָאָהtᵉlâʼâh
weariness, hardship (Exodus 18:8; Numbers 20:14; Nehemiah 9:32; Lamentations 3:5; Malachi 1:13)
Pronunciation: tel-aw-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8513
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 18:8 Moses told his father-in-law everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and Egypt on behalf of Israel. He also told about all the hardships they had experienced along the way and how the Lord had rescued his people from all their troubles.
- Numbers 20:14 While Moses was at Kadesh, he sent ambassadors to the king of Edom with this message: “This is what your relatives, the people of Israel, say: You know all the hardships we have been through.
- Nehemiah 9:32 “And now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of unfailing love, do not let all the hardships we have suffered seem insignificant to you. Great trouble has come upon us and upon our kings and leaders and priests and prophets and ancestors—all of your people—from the days when the kings of Assyria first triumphed over us until now.
- Lamentations 3:5 He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
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).