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Toil (66 Occurrences)
... the body. Multi-Version Concordance Toil (66 Occurrences). ... They don't toil,
neither do they spin, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV). ...
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Labor (181 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or
unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort ...
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Travail (54 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
2. (n ... travail. 3. (n.) To labor with pain; to toil. 4 ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed
to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically ...
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Toiled (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Toil. Multi-Version Concordance
Toiled (13 Occurrences). Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said ...
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Pain (172 Occurrences)
... Pain in the sense of toil and trouble in Jeremiah 12:13 is the translation of chalah
a word more frequently rendered grieving or sickness, as in 1 Kings 14:1 ...
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Lilies (15 Occurrences)
... Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Grow (139 Occurrences)
... Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Weary (77 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or
exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. ...
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Preacher (27 Occurrences)
... One may toil unremittingly, but what is the use (2:22, 23)? He does not
find himself helped by bringing God into the problem. `It ...
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Bible Concordance

Toil (66 Occurrences)

Matthew 6:28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 Corinthians 4:12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
(WEB WEY ASV NAS)

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
(WEY DBY NAS)

2 Corinthians 6:5 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 11:27 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.
(WEY DBY RSV NIV)

Ephesians 4:28 Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.
(DBY)

Philippians 2:16 holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
(WEY NAS)

Philippians 4:3 Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are recorded in the Book of Life.
(WEY)

Colossians 1:29 Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.
(DBY RSV)

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.
(WEY DBY WBS RSV NIV)

2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.
(Root in WEY DBY WBS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 4:10 and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers.
(Root in WEY RSV)

Revelation 2:2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
(WEB WEY ASV NAS RSV)

Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying,'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 5:29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 31:42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
(See NAS NIV)

Genesis 41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 7:3 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 12:31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
(See RSV)

Job 9:29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
(See NAS)

Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.
(DBY)

Job 14:14 (If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
(DBY)

Job 20:18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
(See RSV NIV)

Job 24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
(See RSV)

Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
(See RSV)

Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 109:11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
(See RSV)

Psalms 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
(WEB JPS ASV RSV NIV)

Proverbs 5:10 lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;
(DBY NIV)

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.
(See JPS)

Proverbs 14:23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 23:4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 1:3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
(See JPS DBY)

Ecclesiastes 2:10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 2:18 And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
(Root in DBY RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 2:20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 2:21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 2:22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.
(DBY)

Ecclesiastes 3:13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 4:4 And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with toil and vexation of spirit.
(WBS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 4:8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
(See RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 5:18 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
(See NAS RSV)

Ecclesiastes 8:17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 9:9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 10:15 The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
(See NAS RSV)

Isaiah 43:23 thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation, nor wearied thee with incense.
(DBY)

Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
(DBY)

Jeremiah 20:18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
(See NAS)

Lamentations 3:5 He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.
(DBY)

Ezekiel 24:12 She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't go forth by fire.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
(See NAS)

Haggai 2:17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.
(See RSV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

2. (v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

3. (v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.

4. (v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.

5. (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

Greek

2872. kopiao -- to grow weary, toil
... to grow weary, toil. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kopiao Phonetic Spelling:
(kop-ee-ah'-o) Short Definition: I grow weary, toil Definition: (a) I grow ...
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2873. kopos -- laborious toil
... laborious toil. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kopos Phonetic
Spelling: (kop'-os) Short Definition: trouble, toil, labor Definition: (a ...
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3449. mochthos -- toil, hardship
... toil, hardship. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: mochthos Phonetic
Spelling: (mokh'-thos) Short Definition: wearisome labor, toil, hardship ...
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1278. diaponeomai -- to toil through, to be worn out or annoyed
... to toil through, to be worn out or annoyed. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration:
diaponeomai Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ap-on-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am ...
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3433. molis -- with difficulty
... 3433 (from , "toil) -- properly, something happening with , ie (""). ... [3425
(from , "laborious toil") focuses on the of a difficulty.]. ...
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4192. ponos -- labor
... labor. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: ponos Phonetic Spelling:
(pon'-os) Short Definition: labor, pain Definition: (a) labor, toil, (b) pain ...
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928. basanizo -- to torture
... pain, toil, torment. From basanos; to torture -- pain, toil, torment, toss,
vex. see GREEK basanos. (basanizomene) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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3425. mogis -- hardly.
... Cognate: 3425 (from , "laborious toil") -- properly, (), ie what happens with . ... hardly.
Adverb from a primary mogos (toil); with difficulty -- hardly. ...
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2669. kataponeo -- to wear down
... oppress, vex. From kata and a derivative of ponos; to labor down, ie Wear with toil
(figuratively, harass) -- oppress, vex. see GREEK kata. see GREEK ponos. ...
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2123. eukopoteros -- with easier labor
... easier. Comparative of a compound of eu and kopos; better for toil, ie More facile --
easier. see GREEK eu. see GREEK kopos. (eukopoteron) -- 7 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6093. itstsabon -- a pain, toil
... 6092, 6093. itstsabon. 6094 . a pain, toil. Transliteration: itstsabon
Phonetic Spelling: (its-tsaw-bone') Short Definition: toil. ...
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5999. amal -- trouble, labor, toil
... trouble, labor, toil. Transliteration: amal Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mawl') Short
Definition: labor. ... From amal; toil, ie Wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. ...
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8383. teun -- toil
... toil. Transliteration: teun Phonetic Spelling: (teh-oon') Short Definition: toil.
Word Origin from the same as aven Definition toil NASB Word Usage toil (1). lie ...
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3021. yaga -- to toil, grow or be weary
... yaga or yagea. 3022 . to toil, grow or be weary. Transliteration: yaga or yagea
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-gah') Short Definition: weary. Word Origin a prim. ...
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3018. yegia -- toil, product
... 3017, 3018. yegia. 3019 . toil, product. Transliteration: yegia Phonetic
Spelling: (yeg-ee'-ah) Short Definition: labor. Word Origin ...
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5998. amal -- to labor, toil
... 5997, 5998. amal. 5999 . to labor, toil. Transliteration: amal Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-mal') Short Definition: labored. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6089a. etseb -- a hurt, pain, toil
... 6089, 6089a. etseb. 6089b . a hurt, pain, toil. Transliteration: etseb
Short Definition: goods. Word Origin from atsab Definition ...
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6089. etseb -- a hurt, pain, toil
... 6088, 6089. etseb. 6089a . a hurt, pain, toil. Transliteration: etseb Phonetic
Spelling: (eh'-tseb) Short Definition: idol. earthen vessel, idol, labor, sorrow ...
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2959. tarach -- to toil, be burdened
... 2958, 2959. tarach. 2960 . to toil, be burdened. Transliteration: tarach Phonetic
Spelling: (taw-rakh') Short Definition: loads. Word Origin a prim. ...
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3022. yaga -- a gain
... earnings as the product of toil. From yaga'; earnings (as the product of toil);
-that which he laboured for. see HEBREW yaga'. 3021, 3022. yaga. 3023 . ...
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Library

Vain Toil
... HAGGAI VAIN TOIL. 'Ye have sown much, and bring in little ... of a godless life.
I. It is a life of fruitless toil. The Prophet pictures the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/vain toil.htm

Toil and Rest. September 8.
... Toil and Rest. September 8. Remember always, toil is the condition of our being.
Our sentence is to labour from the cradle to the grave. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/daily thoughts /toil and rest september 8.htm

Days of Toil and Trial
... Lesson 28 Days of Toil and Trial. [This chapter is based on Acts 19:21-41;
20:1.] For over three years Ephesus was the center of Paul's work. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 28 days of toil.htm

That no Toil is Worthy to be Compared with the Promised Bliss.
... Prolegomena. Chapter XII. That no toil is worthy to be compared with the
promised bliss. For all the long years of this present ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xii that no toil.htm

Of the Miseries of this Life which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil ...
... Chapter 23."Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil of
Good Men, Irrespective of Those Which are Common to the Good and Bad. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 23 of the miseries of.htm

The Rest Giver
... Jesus looks with clearsighted compassion into the inmost history of all hearts,
and sees the toil and the sorrow which weigh on every soul. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the rest giver.htm

Ode on the Installation of the Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of ...
... Health to courage firm and high! Health to Granta's chivalry! Wisely finding,
day by day, Play in toil, and toil in play. Granta ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/ode on the installation of.htm

The Practical Side of Religion
... We must roll up our sleeves and take up the rugged toil and, mid sweat and grime
and noise and discord, produce the real results that feed and clothe and ...
/.../naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-five the practical side.htm

Acts of Peter and Andrew.
... For if the good husbandman laboriously till the ground, it will also bear fruit,
and straightway all his toil will be turned into joy; but if he toil, and his ...
/.../unknown/acts of peter and andrew/acts of peter and andrew.htm

There's More of God Since Jesus Went Back.
... with bands At His waist. But His hands" Let the light play on them; Marks
of toil lay on them. Paint with passion and with care ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/theres more of god since.htm

Subtopics

Toil

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Labor (181 Occurrences)

Travail (54 Occurrences)

Work (4564 Occurrences)

Toiled (13 Occurrences)

Pain (172 Occurrences)

Lilies (15 Occurrences)

Grow (139 Occurrences)

Weary (77 Occurrences)

Preacher (27 Occurrences)