עִצָּבוֹן
itsavon · painful toil
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6093 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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itsavon (עִצָּבוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “painful toil”.
Toil, labor that hurts and wearies; pain. The same word is used for the pain of the woman in childbirth and for the man's labor with the ground (Genesis 3:16-17).
How to say it
i·tsa·von
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
- Work that hurts and wears out.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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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.”
- Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; with toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground that YHWH has cursed.”