Lexical Summary inyan: occupation, task Original Word: עִנְיָןTransliteration: inyan Phonetic Spelling: (in-yawn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: occupation, task Meaning: ado, employment, an affair Strong's Concordance business, travail From anah; ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair -- business, travail. see HEBREW anah Brown-Driver-Briggs H6045. inyan עִנְיָן noun masculineEcclesiastes 1:13 occupation, task, only Ecclesiastes (Aramaic loan-word LagBN 205; common in Late Hebrew); — ׳ע absolute 2:26; 3:10; 5:2; 8:16; suffix עִנְיָנוֺ כַּעַס 2:23 his task is (sheer) vextion; רָע עִנְיָן 1:13 an evil (worthless) task, so 4:8 (Masora עִנְיַן as if construct, see Baer1; Baer13; but Köii, 1, 99), and, in weakened sense, 5:12 a bad business, bad affair. |
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