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noun · masculine

Greekπόνος (ponos)
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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.;]

1. labour, toil: Col 4:13.
2. The consequence of toil, distress, suffering, pain (Xen., al., LXX): Re 16:10, 11 21:4.†

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
πόνος, ὁ,
(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.

pain2×pains1×zeal1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeponos1×πόνοςponois
object accusativeponon1×πόνονponoin
direct address vocativeponorponoir
of, belonging to genitiveponou1×πόνουponoiu1×πόνων
to, for dativeponoponoi

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
ponstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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 …