Labor
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Labor

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Labor (181 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. ...
16. (vt) To belabor; to beat. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. LABOR. ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end;
industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor. ...
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Labored (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Labor. 2. (a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately
wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. ...
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Adoniram (4 Occurrences)
... In the American Standard Revised Version it is uniformly "over the men subject to
taskwork." Adoniram was at the head of the department of forced labor for the ...
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Struggle (16 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as,
to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with ...
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Labors (27 Occurrences)
... Labors (27 Occurrences). John 4:38 I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed
no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors. (WBS). ...
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Laborers (19 Occurrences)
... didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in
the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor. ...
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Finish (35 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost
possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish. ...
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Service (317 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor
for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior ...
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Striving (33 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Colossians 1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working,
which works in me mightily. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Hire (48 Occurrences)
... The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary
use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent ...
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Travail (54 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. 2. (n.) Parturition; labor;
as, an easy travail. 3. (n.) To labor with pain; to toil. ...
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Toil (66 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) 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. ...
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Forced (84 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion;
hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced ...
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Laboring (8 Occurrences)
... n.) of Labor. 2. (a.) That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy
work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. ...
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Laboreth (8 Occurrences)
... thereto'. (ASV WBS). Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath man of all his labor
wherein he laboreth under the sun? (ASV). Ecclesiastes ...
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Taskmaster (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with
labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Int. ...
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Task (37 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a
definite quantity or amount. 2. (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor. ...
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Cultivate (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with
a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. ...
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Burden (111 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load. 2. (n.) That which is borne with
labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial;
fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty ...
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Vain (141 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in ...
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Wages (52 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services;
price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. Int. ...
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Subject (99 Occurrences)
... 1:30 Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of
Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor...
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Pains (59 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; --
plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. ...
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Whereof (94 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to ...
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Industry (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one
which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as ...
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Industrious (2 Occurrences)
... by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not
slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. ...
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Force (250 Occurrences)
... do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical,
moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. ...
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Travel (25 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To labor; to travail. ... 10. (n.) Labor; parturition;
travail. Multi-Version Concordance Travel (25 Occurrences). ...
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Tryphosa (1 Occurrence)
... TRYPHOSA. tri-fo'-sa (Truphosa): Greetings are sent by Paul to "Tryphaena and
Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord" (Romans 16:12). See TRYPHAENA. ...
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Tryphaena (1 Occurrence)
... He describes them as those "who labor in the Lord." "The names, which might be rendered
`Dainty' and `Disdain' (see James 5:5 Isaiah 66:11), are ...
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Recall (11 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A calling back; a revocation. 5. (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle,
or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. ...
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Reap (35 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit
of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from ...
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Efforts (11 Occurrences)
... have many opponents. (WEY). Galatians 4:11 I am afraid for you, that I might
have wasted my labor for you. (See NIV). 1 Thessalonians ...
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Enjoyment (11 Occurrences)
... There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth.
For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? ...
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Easy (14 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable;
as, an easy task; an easy victory. 7. (vt) Causing ...
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Especially (23 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 4:10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have
set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of ...
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Earn (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) See Ern. 2. (vt) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that
which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not). ...
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Exhaust (2 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Difficulty (12 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions
labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome ...
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Deprive (17 Occurrences)
... There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth.
For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? ...
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Managed (3 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to
forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. ...
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Miserable (11 Occurrences)
... There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth.
For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? ...
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Withhold (32 Occurrences)
... I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all
my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. (WEB NAS). ...
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Product (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth,
labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products ...
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Pain (172 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief;
solicitude; anguish. 5. (n.) See Pains, labor, effort. ...
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Chasing (12 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at
the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing ...
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Childbirth (24 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail;
labor. Multi-Version Concordance Childbirth (24 Occurrences). ...
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Abda (2 Occurrences)
... ab'-da (`abhda', perhaps, by abbreviation, "servant of Yahweh"): (1) The father
of Adoniram, King Solomon's superintendent of forced labor (1 Kings 4:6). (2) A ...
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Adoram (2 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 20:24 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was the recorder; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS). ...
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Somehow (8 Occurrences)
... run, in vain. (See RSV). Galatians 4:11 I am afraid for you, that I might
have wasted my labor for you. (See NIV). 1 Thessalonians ...
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Specially (26 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 4:10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have
set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of ...
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Strive (64 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor
with earnestness; to labor hard. 2. (vi) To struggle ...
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Sweat (3 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one),
by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. ...
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Spend (54 Occurrences)
... at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within
Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the ...
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Speed (22 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to
forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. ...
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Hadoram (5 Occurrences)
... In 2 Samuel 8:9, 10, written probably incorrectly "Joram," "son of Toi." (3) Rehoboam's
superintendent of the forced labor department (2 Chronicles 10:18 ...
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Enjoy (68 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should
eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. ...
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Rest (831 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To arrest. 2. (n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or
labor; tranquility; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. ...
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Fuel (13 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Severe (53 Occurrences)
... She had hard labor. ... Genesis 35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to
her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son." (See NAS). ...
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Labour (119 Occurrences)
... Genesis 35:16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance
to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. (See JPS). ...
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Joyfully (37 Occurrences)
... the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your
days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which ...
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Heavily (17 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Heavily (17 Occurrences). Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all
you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. (WEB). ...
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Weary (77 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire;
to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. ...
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Drive (132 Occurrences)
... didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in
the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor. ...
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Diligent (33 Occurrences)
... eg for "business" in Romans 12:11; "giving diligence" for "endeavoring" (Ephesians
4:3); "give diligence" for "study" (2 Timothy 2:15,), for "labor" (Hebrews 4 ...
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Canaanite (74 Occurrences)
... didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in
the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor. ...
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Taxing (3 Occurrences)
... discoverable in the Bible is in connection with the conquered Canaanites who were
compelled to serve under tribute, that is, to render forced labor (Joshua 16 ...
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Patience (59 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped
for; forbearance. 3. (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. ...
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Tax (43 Occurrences)
... discoverable in the Bible is in connection with the conquered Canaanites who were
compelled to serve under tribute, that is, to render forced labor (Joshua 16 ...
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Working (205 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to ...
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Dismayed (69 Occurrences)
... Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. ...
Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. ...
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Hammer (15 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. 10. (vt) To form in
the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. 11. ...
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Rehoboam (42 Occurrences)
... provision, and the people, having lost such a privilege by default, naturally deemed
their negligence the cause of Solomon's burdensome taxes and forced labor. ...
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Beloved (117 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). Romans 16:12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who
labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. ...
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Lap (12 Occurrences)
... get a pledge of their cooperation: "Also I shook out my lap (chotsen), and said,
So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth ...
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Naked (56 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 11:27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger
and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. ...
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Crops (48 Occurrences)
... gladness." (See NIV). 2 Timothy 2:6 The farmers who labor must be the first
to get a share of the crops. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). James 5 ...
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