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Notes:
(1) In Phil. 1:22,
KJV
,
, “work,” is translated “labor” (
RV
, “work”); work
refers to what is done, and may be easy and pleasant;
suggests the doing, and the
pains taken therein. (2) A synonymous word is
, “toil, hardship, distress,” 2
Cor. 11:27; 1 Thess. 2:9; 2 Thess. 3:8.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 2872), akin to A, No. 1, has the two different meanings (a)
“growing weary,” (b) “toiling”; it is sometimes translated “to bestow labor” (see under
BESTOW
, No. 3). It is translated by the verb “to labor” in Matt. 11:28; John 4:38 (2nd
part); Acts 20:35; Rom. 16:12 (twice); 1 Cor. 15:10; 16:16; Eph. 4:28; Phil. 2:16; Col.
1:29; 1 Thess. 5:12; 1 Tim. 4:10; 5:17; 2 Tim. 2:6; Rev. 2:3; 1 Cor. 4:12,
RV
, “toil” (
KJV
,
“labor”). See
TOIL
.
2.
(
1
, 5492), from
, “winter cold,” primarily, “to expose to
winter cold,” signifies “to drive with a storm”; in the passive voice, “to be driven with
storm, to be tempest-tossed,” Acts 27:18,
RV
, “as (we) labored with the storm” (
KJV
,
“being … tossed with a tempest”).¶
3.
$
(
!
, 4866), “to contend along with a person” (
$
, “with,”
, “to contend”), is said in Phil. 4:3 of two women who “labored with” the apostle in
the gospel; in 1:27,
RV
, “striving (for),” marg., “with,”
KJV
, “striving together (for).” See
STRIVE
.¶
Notes:
(1) In John 6:27 and 1 Thess. 2:9,
KJV
,
, “to work,” is translated
respectively “labor” and “laboring” (
RV
, “working”). It is used of manual work here and
in 4:11 and Eph. 4:28; of work for Christ in general, in 1 Cor. 16:10. See
COMMIT
. (2) In
Heb. 4:11,
KJV
,
$
, “to be diligent,” is translated “let us labor” (
RV
, “let us give
diligence”). (3) In Col. 4:12,
KJV
,
, “to strive, wrestle,” is translated “laboring
fervently” (
RV
, and
KJV
, marg., “striving”). (4) In 2 Cor. 5:9,
KJV
,
, “to
seek after honor,” and hence, “to be ambitious,” is translated “we labor,” marg.,
“endeavor” (
RV
, “we make it our aim,” marg., “are ambitious”); cf. Rom. 15:20; 1 Thess.
4:11,
RV
, marg.¶
LABORER, FELLOW LABORER
(
#$ 1
, 2040), akin to
, “to work,” and
, “work,” denotes
(a) “a field laborer, a husbandman,” Matt. 9:37, 38; 20:1, 2, 8; Luke 10:2 (twice); Jas.
5:4; (b) “a workman, laborer,” in a general sense, Matt. 10:10; Luke 10:7; Acts 19:25; 1
Tim. 5:18; it is used (c) of false apostles and evil teachers, 2 Cor. 11:13; Phil. 3:2, (d) of a
servant of Christ, 2 Tim. 2:15; (e) of evildoers, Luke 13:27.¶
Note:
In the
KJV
of Philem. 1 and 24,
$
, “a fellow worker,” is translated
“fellow laborer,”
RV
, “fellow worker”; in Phil. 4:3, the plural,
RV
, “fellow workers;” in
Phil. 2:25,
KJV
, “companion in labor,”
RV
, “fellow worker”; in 1 Cor. 3:9,
KJV
, “laborers
together (with God),”
RV
, “God’s fellow workers,” i.e., fellow workers belonging to and
serving God; in 3 John 8,
KJV
, “fellow helpers” (to the truth),
RV
, “fellow workers (with
the truth),” i.e., acting together with the truth as an operating power; in 1 Thess. 3:2,