noun · masculine
ponos
Strong’sG4192
labor, pain
stem pon-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 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.
πόνος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for עָמָל, etc.;]
SYN.: v.s. κόπος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4192 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpon'-os
toil, i.e. (by implication) anguish
Fromfrom the base of G3993;
King Jamespain.
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
(πένομαι) work, especially hard work, toil, in Refs 8th c.BC+ mostly of the toil of war, μάχης π. the toil of battle, Refs 8th c.BC+; πόνος alone, ={μάχη},Refs 8th c.BC+; πόνον ἔχειν, ={μάχεσθαι}, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν τούτῳ τῷ π. ὁ πολέμαρχος διαφθείρεται in this struggle (at Marathon), Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, toil, labour, ἐπεὶ παύσαντο πόνου Refs 8th c.BC+; π. ὀρνίθεσσι τιθείη cause toil to them, Refs 8th c.BC+; π. λαβόντας incurring toil, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάταιος π. labour in vain, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔχει πόνον πολύν involves much trouble, Refs 5th c.BC+ when the tackle labours in the sea, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of special kinds of labour, bodily exertion, exercise, στρατιωτικοὶ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; of exertions in the games, Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; γυμνάσια.., νεανιᾶν (probably) πόνον the scene of youthful labours, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 work, task, business, ἐπεὶ π. ἄλλος ἔπειγεν Refs 8th c.BC+; enterprise, undertaking, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 implements for labour, stock-in-trade, οὗτος τοῖς ἁλιεῦσιν ὁ πᾶς πόνος Refs 3rd c.BC+; καὶ πόνος ἐντὶ θάλασσα the sea is their workshop, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II stress, trouble, distress, suffering, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν τούτῳ τῷ π., of a storm, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ Μηδικὸς [π.] the trouble from the Medes, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.: in plural, sufferings, Refs 4th c.BC+; πόνους πονεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; also of disease, κατέβαινεν ἐς τὰ στήθη ὁ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 pain, especially physical, δύο π. ἅμα γενομένων, μὴ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον, ὁ σφοδρότερος ἀμαυροῖ τὸν ἕτερον LXX+5th c.BC+; distinguished from λύπη (pain in general), Refs 3rd c.AD+; but sometimes ={λύπη}, Refs 4th c.BC+
III anything produced by work, a work, μελισσᾶν τρητὸς π., of honey, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ ἐμὸς ὠδίνων π., of a child, Refs; so, πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες, i.e. the nestlings, Refs 4th c.BC+; τοὺς ἡμετέρους π. the fruits of our labour, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV Πόνος personified as son of Eris, Refs 8th c.BC+
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 | ponos1×πόνος | ponois |
| object accusative | ponon1×πόνον | ponoin |
| direct address vocative | ponor | ponoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ponou1×πόνου | ponoiu1×πόνων |
| to, for dative | pono | ponoi |
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
pono 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
ponos“pain”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:4… ēti; oute penthem oute kraugas oute ponos ouk eti ēti. teim prōteim aperchala.… death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed …
ponon“zeal”objectaccusative singular1×
Colossians 4:13“zeal”marturamō gar auto hoti echatō pollon ponon huper vu kai toiu en Laodikeia …For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.
ponou“pain”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 16:10“pain”… masole tain glōssain autoiu ek tou ponou,… to gnaw their tongues in anguish
ponoiu“pains”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 16:11… ton theon tou ouranou ek toiu ponoiu autoiu kai ek teiu helkeiu autoiu, …… the God of heaven for their pains and sores. Yet they did not …