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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Labour

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

89exact KJV occurrences 65Old Testament 24New Testament 30books containing the word 24mapped Strong's IDs 88occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 31:42

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where labour appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH5999
עָמָל

ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'

25 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences

n

toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind

Strong's KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 26:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 20:18

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HebrewH3018
יְגִיעַ

yᵉgîyaʻ · yeg-ee'-ah

12 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

Strong's KJV usage: labour, work.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 31:42Strong's last: Haggai 1:11

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HebrewH3205
יָלַד

yâlad · yaw-lad'

2 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences

v

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

Strong's KJV usage: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).

Strong's first: Genesis 35:16Strong's last: Genesis 35:17

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HebrewH5647
עָבַד

ʻâbad · aw-bad'

2 times translated as this KJV form291 total Strong's occurrences

v

to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

Strong's KJV usage: × be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,

Strong's first: Exodus 20:9Strong's last: Deuteronomy 5:13

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HebrewH6213
עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh · aw-saw'

2 times translated as this KJV form2,630 total Strong's occurrences

v

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.

Strong's first: Exodus 5:9Strong's last: Proverbs 21:25

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GreekG5389
φιλοτιμέομαι

philotiméomai · fil-ot-im-eh'-om-ahee

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

to be fond of honor, i.e. emulous (eager or earnest to do something)

Strong's KJV usage: :--labour, strive, study.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 5:9Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 5:9

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HebrewH3027
יָד

yâd · yawd

1 times translated as this KJV form1,573 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]

Strong's KJV usage: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.

Strong's first: Proverbs 13:11Strong's last: Proverbs 13:11

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HebrewH4399
מְלָאכָה

mᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form159 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)

Strong's KJV usage: business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).

Strong's first: Nehemiah 4:22Strong's last: Nehemiah 4:22

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HebrewH4639
מַעֲשֶׂה

maʻăseh · mah-as-eh'

1 times translated as this KJV form229 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

Strong's KJV usage: act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

Strong's first: Habakkuk 3:17Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:17

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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89 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Proverbs 14:23
H6089

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 21:25
H6213

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Ecclesiastes 1:3
H5999

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:8
H3023

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:10
H5999

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

Ecclesiastes 2:10
H5999

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
H5999

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:18
H5999

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
H5999

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:20
H5999

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21
H5999

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:22
H5999

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:24
H5999

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13
H5999

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
H5999

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
H6001

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:9
H5999

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecclesiastes 5:15
H5999

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:18
H5999

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:19
H5999

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:7
H5999

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 8:15
H5999

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:17
H5998

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
H5999

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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