עֶצֶב
etsev · pain, toil
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6089 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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etsev (עֶצֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pain, toil”.
Pain, painful toil; also an earthen vessel.
How to say it
e·tsev
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Suffering, labor; a wounding word.
- An object made by a potter.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- toil ×2
- anxious toils ×1
- hurtful ×1
- pain ×1
- vessel ×1
- weariness ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your toil and your pregnancies; with pain you will give birth to children; and toward your husband will be your desire, and he will rule over you.”
- Psalms 127:2
It is in vain for you to rise early to get up, to be late to sit down, to eat the bread of anxious toils; so he gives to his beloved sleep.
- Proverbs 5:10
lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your toil go to the house of a foreigner;
- Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of YHWH, it makes rich, and it does not add weariness with it.
- Proverbs 14:23
In all toil there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to need.
- Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns back wrath, but a hurtful word stirs up anger.
- Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel, or an object in which there is no delight? Why have they been hurled out, he and his offspring, and cast into the land that they have not known?