עִנְיָן
ʿinyān
occupation
Strong's H6045NounHebrewTWOT 1651a

עִנְיָן (ʿinyān) is a Hebrew noun meaning occupation. It appears 8 times in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6045).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1651a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1651a)occupation, task; ado, employment, affair; business, travail
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עִנְיָן noun, masculine: occupation, task

Strong's H6045 עִנְיָן: ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
KJV:business, travail.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1651: עָנָה ʿānâ — be occupied, busied with; depress; abase self, afflict, affliction, answer, chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble, hurt, ravish, sing, speak, submit self, weaken

See it in Scripture

Ecclesiastes 1:13

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