יְגִיעַ yegia
Hebrew word for “toil” · Strong’s H3018 · used 16 times in 16 verses
Meaning
1) toil, work; 2) product, produce, acquired property (as a result of work)
How it is translated
Glosses given for yegia in context, with how often each is used:
- toil 5
- property 4
- result of toil 2
- product 2
- labor 1
- produce 1
- toils 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Psalms | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Haggai | 1 | 1.7 |
Chapters where it is used most
Job 39 (2), Genesis 31 (1), Deuteronomy 28 (1), Nehemiah 5 (1), Job 10 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Psalms 109 (1), Psalms 128 (1), Isaiah 45 (1), Isaiah 55 (1)
Forms
- יגיע 6
- יגיעך 3
- יגיעה 2
- ומיגיעו 1
- ויגיעם 1
- יגיעו 1
- ויגיעכם 1
- יגיעי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yegia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- כַּף kaph “palm” 4
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 4
- עָשַׁק ashaq “to oppress” 2
- בָּזַז bazaz “to plunder” 2
- פַּחַד pachad “dread” 2
- אַךְ akh “surely” 2
- עָזַב azav “to leave” 2
- אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 2
- ךְ kh “you” 2
- טוֹב tov “pleasant” 2
- נִי ni “me” 2
- לָקַח laqach “to take” 2
Key verses
The verses using yegia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- Deuteronomy 28:33 — The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
- Nehemiah 5:13 — Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out,…
- Job 10:3 — Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Psalms 128:2 — For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- Isaiah 45:14 — Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine:…
- Isaiah 55:2 — Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is…
- Jeremiah 3:24 — For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 20:5 — Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of…
- Ezekiel 23:29 — And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be…
- Hosea 12:8 — And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
- Haggai 1:11 — And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground…
See all 16 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.