King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6045
Transliteration: inyan
Phonetic Spelling: (in-yawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: occupation, task
Meaning: ado, employment, an affair
Word Summary
inyan: occupation, task
Original Word: עִנְיָןTransliteration: inyan
Phonetic Spelling: (in-yawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: occupation, task
Meaning: ado, employment, an affair
Strong's Concordance
business, travail From anah; ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair -- business, travail.
see HEBREW anah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6045. inyan
עִנְיָן noun masculineEcclesiastes 1:13 occupation, task, only Ecclesiastes (Aramaic loan-word LagBN 205; common in Late Hebrew); — ׳ע absolute 2:26; 3:10; 5:2; 8:16; suffix עִנְיָנוֺ כַּעַס 2:23 his task is (sheer) vextion; רָע עִנְיָן 1:13 an evil (worthless) task, so 4:8 (Masora עִנְיַן as if construct, see Baer1; Baer13; but Köii, 1, 99), and, in weakened sense, 5:12 a bad business, bad affair.