yegia · toil, its fruit

What it means

yegia (יְגִיעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “toil, its fruit”.

Wearying labor and what it earns.

How to say it

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

1. What takes effort and what is gained by that effort.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• labor ×13
• toil ×2
• labors ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 31:42

  Had not the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  The fruit of your ground and all your labor a people that you have not known will eat; and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  I also shook out my lap and said, “So may Elohim shake out every man who does not fulfill this word, from his house and from his labor; and so may he be shaken out and empty.” And all the assembly said, “Amen.” And they praised YHWH. And the people did according to this word.

• Job 10:3

  Does it seem good to you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your palms, and shine forth on the counsel of the wicked?

• Job 39:11

  Will you trust in him because his strength is great, and leave to him your labor?

• Job 39:16

  She treats harshly her young as if they were not hers; in vain is her labor, without dread,

• Psalms 78:46

  And he gave to the hopper their produce, and their labor to the locust.

• Psalms 109:11

  Let the creditor lay snares for all that he has, and let strangers plunder his toil.

• Psalms 128:2

  The labor of your hands, when you eat it, happy are you, and it will be good for you.

• Isaiah 45:14

  Thus says YHWH: “The labor of Egypt and the gain of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will pass over to you and will be yours; they will walk behind you; in chains they will pass over; and to you they will bow down, to you they will pray: ‘Only in you is El, and there is no other; there is no other Elohim.’”

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and the fruit of your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness.

• Jeremiah 3:24

  But the Shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

• Jeremiah 20:5

  And I will give all the wealth of this city and all the fruit of its labor and all its precious things; and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them and take them and bring them to Babylon.

• Ezekiel 23:29

  And they will deal with you in hatred, and take all your labor, and leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitutions will be uncovered, both your infamy and your prostitutions.

• Hosea 12:8

  And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they will not find in me iniquity that is sin.”

• Haggai 1:11

  And I called for a drought on the land and on the mountains, and on the grain and on the new wine and on the oil, and on what the ground brings forth, and on human beings and on livestock, and on all the labor of their hands.”