Topic
Painfulness
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- John 4:18ISBE
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
- 2 Corinthians 11:27ISBE
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
pan'-fool-nes (mochthos): In the summary of his missionary labors in 2Co 11:27 the King James Version, Paul uses this word. The Revised Version (British and American) renders it "travail," which probably now expresses its meaning more closely, as in modern usage "painfulness" is usually restricted to the condition of actual soreness or suffering, although we still use "painstaking" in the sense of careful labor. The Greek word is used for toil or excessive anxiety, as in Euripides (Medea, 126), where it refers to that care for her children which she had lost in her madness. Tyndale uses "painfulness" in 1 Joh 4:18 as the translation of kolasis, which the King James Version renders "torment" and the Revised Version (British and American) "punishment."
Alexander Macalister
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.