תְּאֻן
tᵉʼun · H8383 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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effort, toil
Action by which someone exerts his strength for a certain purpose
ExamplesEzekiel 24:12 “She has wearied Me with work, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- כָּזָב kâzâb · H3577 · falsehood, lie, lies
- A common Hebrew noun denoting 'lie' or 'falsehood,' frequently used in parallel with other terms for deception and untruth; semantically very close to תְּאֻן.
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- The most common Hebrew word for 'lie' or 'falsehood,' widely attested in prophetic and wisdom literature as a synonym for deceptive speech.
Contrasting words 1 word
- אֶמֶת ʼemeth · H571 · faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness
- The standard Hebrew word for 'truth,' the direct lexical opposite of 'lie' in the semantic domain of truthfulness vs. falsehood.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood
- The standard Greek noun for 'lie' or 'falsehood,' the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew תְּאֻן in contexts denoting deception or untruth.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- This word occurs in a context of strenuous, wearying labor, as in Ezekiel 24:12's lament that Jerusalem has wearied the LORD with work.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8383. teun תְּאֻנִים noun [masculine] toil Eze 24:12 ׳תּ הֶלְאָת she hath wearied (me or…
תְּאֻנִים noun [masculine] toil Eze 24:12 ׳תּ הֶלְאָת she hath wearied (me or herself) with toil (but Co strike out as dittograph compare ᵐ5).
II. און (compare Arabic (medial ) be at rest, at ease, enjoy life of plenty; one enjoying a life of ease, freedom from toil & trouble).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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