Topic
Travail
20 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.
- Genesis 35:16ISBE
¶ And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
- Genesis 38:27ISBE
¶ And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
- Exodus 18:8ISBE
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
- Numbers 20:14ISBE
¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
- 1 Samuel 4:19ISBE
¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
- Job 15:20ISBE
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- Psalms 7:14ISBE
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4ISBE
¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6ISBE
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
- Lamentations 3:5ISBE
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 19:11ISBE
A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 31:5ISBE
He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.
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- Matthew 24:8 ISBE
- John 16:21 ISBE
- Romans 8:22 ISBE
- Galatians 4:19 ISBE
- Galatians 4:27 ISBE
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 ISBE
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8 ISBE
- Revelation 12:2 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 24 references
trav'-al (yaladh (Ge 35:16, etc.), chul, chil (properly "writhe," Job 15:20, etc.); odin (classical odis) (Mt 24:8, etc.), odino (Sirach 19:11, etc.; Ga 4:19, etc.)): "Travail" and its derivatives are used in the primary sense of the labor of childbirth, descriptive of the actual cases of Rachel (Ge 35:16), Tamar (Ge 38:27), Ichabod's mother (1Sa 4:19), and the apocalyptic woman clothed with the sun (Re 12:2). In the majority of passages, however, "travail" is used figuratively, to express extreme and painful sorrow (9 times in Jeremiah), "as of a woman in travail." It is also employed in the sense of irksome and vexatious business (6 times in Ecclesiastes, where it is the rendering of the word `inyan). In the same book "travail" is used to express the toil of one's daily occupation (Ecclesiastes 4:4,6), where it is the translation of `amal. In three places (Ex 18:8; Nu 20:14; La 3:5) where the King James Version has "travel" the Revised Version (British and American) has changed it to "travail," as in these passages the word tela'ah refers to the sense of weariness and toil, rather than to the idea of journeying (in the King James Version the spellings "travel" and "travail" were used indiscriminately; compare Sirach 19:11; 31:5). The sorrows which are the fruits of wickedness are compared to the pain of travail in Job 15:20 (chul) and Ps 7:14 (chabhal), the word used here meaning the torture or twisting pains of labor; see also the fanciful employment of "travail" in Sirach 19:11.
In the New Testament the travail of childbirth is used as the figure of the painful and anxious struggle against the evils of the world in the soul's efforts to attain the higher ideals of the Christian life (Joh 16:21 (tikto); Ro 8:22; Ga 4:27); twice, however, it is the rendering of mochthos, the ordinary word for "toil," "hardship" or "distress" (1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8).
Alex. 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.