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Lexicon :: Strong's G3449 - mochthos

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μόχθος
Transliteration
mochthos (Key)
Pronunciation
mokh'-thos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of μόγις (G3425)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: cii. μόχθος, πόνος, κόπος.

Strong’s Definitions

†μόχθος móchthos, mokh'-thos; from the base of G3425; toil, i.e. (by implication) sadness:—painfulness, travail.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3449 in the following manner: travail (2x), painfulness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3449 in the following manner: travail (2x), painfulness (1x).

  1. a hard and difficult labour, toil, travail, hardship, distress

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†μόχθος móchthos, mokh'-thos; from the base of G3425; toil, i.e. (by implication) sadness:—painfulness, travail.
STRONGS G3449:
μόχθος, μόχθου, ὁ, hard and difficult labor, toil, travail; hardship, distress: 2 Corinthians 11:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; see κόπος, 3 b. (Hesiod scut. 306; Pindar, Tragg., Xenophon, others; the Sept. chiefly for עָמָל.) (Synonym: see κόπος, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Corinthians
11:27
1 Thessalonians
2:9
2 Thessalonians
3:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3449 matches the Greek μόχθος (mochthos),
which occurs 54 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8 - Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the LORD had saved them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:43 - Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14 - Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardships that have come on us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - “No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed[fn] in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3 - What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10 - I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9 - What do workers gain from their toil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:16 - This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17 - then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:8 - “For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8 - The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - May the violence done to our flesh[fn] be on Babylon,” say the inhabitants of Zion. “May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,” says Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:5 - He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:65

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:65 - Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
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