עֶצֶב
ʻetseb · H6089 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Thing
- Containers, vesselsHousehold59 verses
Meanings
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labor, toil, hard work
Action by which humans have to make a strong physical effort to complete a specific task, for one's own benefit or in service to another
ExamplesGenesis 3:16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you shall deliver children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
Psalm 127:2 It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.
Proverbs 5:10 And strangers will be filled with your strength, And your hard-earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;
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harsh words
Literally, a word of pain; therefore communication that is cruel and that causes emotional pain or anguish
ExamplesProverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
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a pot or jar
A container, usually made of clay, used to hold grain or liquid
ExamplesJeremiah 22:28 “Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been hurled out And cast into a land that they had not known?
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָפַץto break 1
- בָּזָהto despise 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָסַףto add 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חֶבֶל chebel · H2256 · rope, cord, noose
- חֶבֶל (‘pain, pang, sorrow’) and the target lexeme (‘labor, sorrow’) overlap semantically in the sense of painful affliction — spasm or labor-pain — and are plausibly true near-synonyms in that sense.
- צִיר tsîyr · H6735 · image, messenger, envoy
- עֶצֶב (ʻetseb, H6089) covers “grievous, labor, sorrow,” and צִיר includes “pain, pang, sorrow” among its several other senses (ambassador, hinge, messenger); the two overlap in the sense of pain or sorrow.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Spasm002001001059
- עֶצֶב denotes painful physical labor, as in the pain of childbirth multiplied on the woman in Genesis 3:16 and the painful toil of hard labor described in Psalms and Proverbs.
- Unsafe002003003022
- The word also carries the sense of sorrow or distress, the emotional counterpart to its physical sense of painful toil.
- Containers001003001001003
- The word's derivational link to the same root's idol-related senses ties it to molded or crafted objects, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled labor-and-sorrow citations.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6089. etseb I. עֶ֫צֶב noun [masculine] pain, hurt, toil; — 1 ׳ע pain Gen 3:16 (of…
I. עֶ֫צֶב noun [masculine] pain, hurt, toil; —
1 ׳ע pain Gen 3:16 (of travail), Pro 10:22.
2 hurt (of mind), ׳דְּבַרעֿ Pro 15:1 a word that hurts (opposed to מַעֲנֶהרַֿךְ).
3 toil Pro 14:23; pluralהָעֲצָבִים לֶחֶם Psa 127:2 bread of (gained by) toils; suffix עֲצָבֶיךָ Pro 5:10.
II. עֶ֫צֶב noun masculine vessel (as fashioned); — וגו ׳נִבְזֶה ׳י Jer 22:28 a vessel despised, etc. (figurative of Coniah = Jehoiachin).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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