noun · masculine
mochthos
Strong’sG3449
wearisome labor, toil, hardship
stem mochth-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μόχθος, -ου, ὁ
(= Hom. μόγος), in cl. chiefly poët., [in LXX for תְּלָאָה, עָמָל, etc.;]
SYN.: κόπος (q.v.), πόνος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3449 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmokh'-thos
toil, i.e. (by implication) sadness
Fromfrom the base of G3425;
King Jamespainfulness, travail.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
= Homeric μόγος, toil, hardship, distress, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἀέθλῳ δῆριν ἔχειν καὶ μ. Refs 8th c.BC+; μόχθων ἀμπνοά, ἀμοιβά, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in plural, toils, troubles, hardships, Refs 4th c.BC+, etc.; of the labours of Heracles, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. τέκνων for them, Refs 5th c.BC+; μόχθον ἀμφὶ πράγμασι epigram cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; Ἀπελλείου μ. γραφίδος, of a picture, NT+5th c.BC+; μ. implies hardship, πόνος work (but μ. is said to be Cretan dialect for πόνος Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mochthos | mochthois |
| object accusative | mochthon1×μόχθον | mochthoin |
| direct address vocative | mochthor | mochthoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mochthou | mochthoiu |
| to, for dative | mochtho2×μόχθῳ | mochthoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
mochtho is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
mochthon“hardship”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Thessalonians 2:9“hardship”… adelfoir, ton kopon nu kai ton mochthon; nuktau kai hēmerau ergazorōntois pros tem …… you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would …
mochtho“labor”to, fordative singular2×
2 Corinthians 11:27“hardship”kopo kai mochtho, en agrupniai pollakis, en limo kai …… labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and …
2 Thessalonians 3:8… para tinou, alla en kopo kai mochtho nuktau kai hēmerau ergazorōntois pros tem …… without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and …