2 Thessalonians 3:8
New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
לֹא
lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
מְאוּמָה
mᵉʼûwmâh
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עָמָל
ʻâmâl
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
לַיִל
layil
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
כָּבַד
kâbad
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same t...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּבַד kâbad
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
Study H3513 →מְאוּמָה mᵉʼûwmâh
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
Study H3972 →עָמָל ʻâmâl
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
Study H5999 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →לַיִל layil
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
Study H3915 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →לֹא lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
Study H3808 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
Give us this day our daily bread.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from bei...
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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