Strong's Hebrew · H8513

H8513 tᵉlâʼâh

תְּלָאָה

tel-aw-aw'

hardship

tᵉlâʼâh appears 4 times in Scripture, in Exodus, Numbers, Nehemiah and Lamentations. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

distress

In the King James Version

travail, travel, trouble.

Derivation

from H3811 (לָאָה);

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Exodus 18:8

“Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.”

Numbers 20:14

“From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,”

Nehemiah 9:32

“So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.”

Lamentations 3:5

“He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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