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- Labor - n. - Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
- Labor - n. - Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- Labor - n. - That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- Labor - n. - Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- Labor - n. - Any pang or distress.
- Labor - n. - The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- Labor - n. - A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
- Labor - n. - To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- Labor - n. - To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- Labor - n. - To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
- Labor - n. - To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- Labor - n. - To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- Labor - v. t. - To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
- Labor - v. t. - To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
- Labor - v. t. - To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
- Labor - v. t. - To belabor; to beat.
- Labor-saving - a. - Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.
- Laborant - n. - A chemist.
- Laboratories - pl. - of Laboratory
- Laboratory - n. - The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
- Labored - imp. & p. p. - of Labor
- Labored - a. - Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
- Laboredly - adv. - In a labored manner; with labor.
- Laborer - n. - One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
- Laboring - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Labor
- Agitation - n. - Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
- Buckle - v. i. - To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
- Tewed - a. - Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship.
- Picket - n. - By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
- Breadthwinner - n. - The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
- Travail - n. - To labor with pain; to toil.
- Indolent - a. - Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
- Garden - v. i. - To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
- Hoe - v. i. - To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
- Sweat - v. t. - To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
- Earn - v. t. - To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).
- Naturalize - v. t. - To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
- Service - n. - The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
- Loll - v. i. - To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
- Industry - n. - Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
- Overwork - v. t. - To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
- Facilitate - v. t. - To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
- Idle - superl. - Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
- Gripe - v. i. - To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
- Rest - n. - To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
- End - n. - The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
- Ease - n. - Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
- Mucker - v. t. - To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.
- Difficulty - n. - Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
- Fag - v. i. - To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
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- H5673 עֲבִידָה - 5673 עֲבִידָה - עֲבִידָה - - ʻăbîydâh - ab-ee-daw' - (Aramaic) from עֲבַד; labor or business; affairs, service, work. - Noun Feminine - arc
- H6001 עָמֵל - 6001 עָמֵל - עָמֵל - - ʻâmêl - aw-male' - from עָמַל; toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful; that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman. - - heb
- H6089 עֶצֶב - 6089 עֶצֶב - עֶצֶב - - ʻetseb - eh'-tseb - from עָצַב; an earthen vessel; usually (painful) toil; also a pang (whether of body or mind); grievous, idol, labor, sorrow. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H6093 עִצָּבוֹן - 6093 עִצָּבוֹן - עִצָּבוֹן - - ʻitstsâbôwn - its-tsaw-bone' - from עָצַב; worrisomeness, i.e. labor or pain; sorrow, toil. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H213 אוּץ - 213 אוּץ - אוּץ - - ʼûwts - oots - a primitive root; to press; (by implication) to be close, hurry, withdraw; (make) haste(-n, -y), labor, be narrow. - Verb - heb
- G75 ἀγωνίζομαι - 75 ἀγωνίζομαι - ἈΓΩΝΊΖΟΜΑΙ - - agōnízomai - ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee - from ἀγών; to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to accomplish something):--fight, labor fervently, strive. - Verb - greek
- G778 ἀσκέω - 778 ἀσκέω - ἈΣΚΈΩ - - askéō - as-keh'-o - probably from the same as σκεῦος; to elaborate, i.e. (figuratively) train (by implication, strive):--exercise. - Verb - greek
- H988 בָּטֵל - 988 בָּטֵל - בָּטֵל - - bâṭêl - baw-tale' - a primitive root; to desist from labor; cease. - Verb - heb
- G5492 χειμάζω - 5492 χειμάζω - ΧΕΙΜΆΖΩ - - cheimázō - khi-mad'-zo - from the same as χειμών; to storm, i.e. (passively) to labor under a gale:--be tossed with tempest. - Verb - greek
- H2706 חֹק - 2706 חֹק - חֹק - - chôq - khoke - from חָקַק; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage); appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H2708 חֻקָּה - 2708 חֻקָּה - חֻקָּה - - chuqqâh - khook-kaw' - feminine of חֹק, and meaning substantially the same; {an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}; appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G1708 ἐμπλοκή - 1708 ἐμπλοκή - ἘΜΠΛΟΚΉ - - emplokḗ - em-plok-ay' - from ἐμπλέκω; elaborate braiding of the hair:--plaiting. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G1463 ἐγκομβόομαι - 1463 ἐγκομβόομαι - ἘΓΚΟΜΒΌΟΜΑΙ - - enkombóomai - eng-kom-bo'-om-ahee - middle voice from ἐν and (to gird); to engirdle oneself (for labor), i.e. figuratively (the apron as being a badge of servitude) to wear (in token of mutual deference):--be clothed with. - Verb - greek
- G2038 ἐργάζομαι - 2038 ἐργάζομαι - ἘΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ - - ergázomai - er-gad'-zom-ahee - middle voice from ἔργον; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.:--commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work. - Verb - greek
- H1581 גָּמָל - 1581 גָּמָל - גָּמָל - - gâmâl - gaw-mawl' - apparently from גָּמַל (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing); a camel; camel. - Noun - heb
- H1518 גִּיחַ - 1518 גִּיחַ - גִּיחַ - - gîyach - ghee'-akh - lemma גּיחַ missing vowel, corrected to גִּיחַ; or (shortened) גֹּחַ; a primitive root; to gush forth (as water), generally to issue; break forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out. - Verb - heb
- G2270 ἡσυχάζω - 2270 ἡσυχάζω - ἩΣΥΧΆΖΩ - - hēsycházō - hay-soo-khad'-zo - from the same as ἡσύχιος; to keep still (intransitively), i.e. refrain from labor, meddlesomeness or speech:--cease, hold peace, be quiet, rest. - Verb - greek
- G2669 καταπονέω - 2669 καταπονέω - ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΈΩ - - kataponéō - kat-ap-on-eh'-o - from κατά and a derivative of πόνος; to labor down, i.e. wear with toil (figuratively, harass):--oppress, vex. - Verb - greek
- H4522 מַס - 4522 מַס - מַס - - maç - mas - or מִס; from מָסַס; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor; discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary). - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4639 מַעֲשֶׂה - 4639 מַעֲשֶׂה - מַעֲשֶׂה - - maʻăseh - mah-as-eh' - from עָשָׂה; an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property; act, art, [phrase] bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, [idiom] well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4097 מִדְרָשׁ - 4097 מִדְרָשׁ - מִדְרָשׁ - - midrâsh - mid-rawsh' - from דָּרַשׁ; properly, an investigation, i.e. (by implication) a treatise or elaborate compilation; story. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4399 מְלָאכָה - 4399 מְלָאכָה - מְלָאכָה - - mᵉlâʼkâh - mel-aw-kaw' - from the same as מֲלְאָךְ; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor); business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied), [phrase] officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship). - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3787 ὀφθαλμοδουλεία - 3787 ὀφθαλμοδουλεία - ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟΔΟΥΛΕΊΑ - - ophthalmodouleía - of-thal-mod-oo-li'-ah - from ὀφθαλμός and δουλεία; sight-labor, i.e. that needs watching (remissness):--eye-service. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H6469 פְּעֻלְּתַי - 6469 פְּעֻלְּתַי - פְּעֻלְּתַי - - Pᵉʻullᵉthay - peh-ool-leh-thah'-ee - xlit Pᵉullʻthay corrected to Pᵉʻullᵉthay; from פְּעֻלָּה; laborious; Peullethai, an Israelite; Peulthai. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H8059 שְׁמִטָּה - 8059 שְׁמִטָּה - שְׁמִטָּה - - shᵉmiṭṭâh - shem-it-taw' - from שָׁמַט; remission (of debt) or suspension of labor); release. - Noun Feminine - heb