KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Work, toil, effort, exertion, service, or the product of work. 2. Weariness or trouble. 3. Travail in childbirth. 4. To work, strive, serve, or exert oneself.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 31:42
Complete exact-word concordance
EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
¶ Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the LORD keepe the citie, the watchman waketh but in vaine.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine handes: happie shalt thou bee, and it shall be well with thee.
That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streetes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. able to beare burdens, or loaden with flesh.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruite of the wicked to sinne.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Wealth gotten by vanitie shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour, shall increase.
1611 marginal noteHeb. with the hand.
1611 marginal noteChap. 10.2. & 20.21.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
In all labour there is profit: but the talke of the lippes tendeth onely to penury.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
The desire of the slouthfull killeth him: for his hands refuse to labour.
1611 marginal noteCha.13.4
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
1611 marginal note1.Tim.6.9.10.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
What profite hath a man of all his labour which hee taketh vnder the Sunne?
1611 marginal noteCha.2.22. and 3.9.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are full of labour, man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
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