Occurrences
ʻinyân occurs 8 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ecclesiastes (8)
- Ecclesiastes 1:13 — And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail (עִנְיַ֣ן) hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
- Ecclesiastes 2:23 — For all his days are sorrows, and his travail (עִנְיָנ֔וֹ) grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail (עִנְיָ֜ן), to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 3:10 — I have seen the travail (הָֽעִנְיָ֗ן), which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail (וְעִנְיַ֥ן).
- Ecclesiastes 5:3 — For a dream cometh through the multitude of business (עִנְיָ֑ן); and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 — But those riches perish by evil travail (בְּעִנְיַ֣ן): and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
- Ecclesiastes 8:16 — When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business (הָ֣עִנְיָ֔ן) that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)