תְּלָאָה
tᵉlâʼâh · H8513 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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upsetting, burden, bother
Literally: weariness; hence: something that causes humans to feel upset
ExamplesMalachi 1:13 “You also say, ‘See, how tiresome it is!’ And you view it as trivial,” says the LORD of armies, “and you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I accept it from your hand?” says the LORD.
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hardship
Literally: weariness; hence: process by which humans experience hardship
ExamplesExodus 18:8 Moses told his father-in-law everything that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had confronted them on the journey, and how the LORD had rescued them.
Numbers 20:14 From Kadesh Moses then sent messengers to the king of Edom to say, “This is what your brother Israel has said: ‘You know all the hardship that has overtaken us;
Nehemiah 9:32 “Now then, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps His covenant and faithfulness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has happened to us, our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and to all Your people, From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָצָאto find 3
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָעַטto become few 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָהwhat?, why? 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 1 word
- תּוּגָה tûwgâh · H8424 · grief
- Both words denote negative experiences of sorrow and hardship (grief on one side, travail and trouble on the other) and can substitute for each other in contexts of distress.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μόχθος móchthos · G3449 · hard labor, toil
- Greek μόχθος emphasizes the toil/labor aspect with emotional overtones of sadness, while Hebrew תְּלָאָה covers a broader semantic range including travail, travel hardship, and general trouble, but both converge on burdensome difficulty as their core shared meaning.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Grieve002001002013
- This noun denotes deep distress, as in Lamentations 3:5's description of being besieged and surrounded with bitterness and hardship.
- Unsafe002003003022
- The noun also denotes a dangerous hardship overtaking someone, as in Exodus 18:8's account of all the hardship that confronted Israel on their journey.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root לָאָה
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8513. telaah תְּלָאָה noun feminine weariness, hardship; — ׳ת Exo 18:8 Exo 18:4t.; of…
תְּלָאָה noun feminine weariness, hardship; — ׳ת Exo 18:8 Exo 18:4t.; of distress of Israel in Egypt Num 20:14; in wilderness Exo 18:8 (both J E); from Assyr., Babylonian, etc. Neh 9:32; compare Lam 3:5 (|| ראֹשׁ, gall); Mal 1:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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