Webster 1828 · headword: task
View source image ↗Business or labor imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount; burdensome employment.
KJV WORD
task
COMBINED MEANING
Meaning of task
A definite amount of labor or business imposed and required to be performed.
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Root: task
Labor, duty, or a set amount of work imposed for performance.
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Every occurrence of “task”
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Meaning here: The fixed daily amount of labor imposed and required by authority.
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Meaning here: The fixed daily amount of labor imposed and required by authority.