What does ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría) mean in the Bible?
ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría): Misery rooted in hard labor and suffering; NT use emphasizes distress accompanying injustice and oppression.
Greek · G5004
ταλαιπωρία
Misery
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ταλαιπωρία G5004
Pronunciation talaipōría
What does ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría) mean in the Bible?
ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría): Misery rooted in hard labor and suffering; NT use emphasizes distress accompanying injustice and oppression.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5004?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include misery (2).
Where does ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 3:16. Its strongest book concentrations include James (1), Romans (1).
Are there verse guides for ταλαιπωρία (talaipōría)?
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It misery 2× Romans 3:16, James 5:1
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Usage map
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First aligned row Romans 3:16
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Romans 1 James 1
Source forms
ταλαιπωρία 1x talaipōria Romans 3:16
ταλαιπωρίαις 1x talaipōriais James 5:1
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural 1x James 5:1
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 3:16
Key Verse and Form Guides
Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Misery rooted in hard labor and suffering; NT use emphasizes distress accompanying injustice and oppression.
Source Gloss
misery
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Misery rooted in hard labor and suffering; NT use emphasizes distress accompanying injustice and oppression.
(ταλαίπωρος) [in LXX chiefly for שֹׁד ;]
1hard work (Hippocr.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
talaipwria
hardship, misery
Read verse James 5:1 Noun Dative Plural Feminine
ταλαιπωρίαις talaipwriaiv
hardship, misery
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Dative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Dative · Plural · Feminine Jas 5:1 1×
Word Origins
ταλαιπωρία is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain