travail

«travail» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: hard work, labour pains — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

hard work, labour pains

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Painful, hard work or effort; in the first sentence it means the pains of childbirth. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "travail" is rare and formal; we usually say "labour" or "hard work." All three sentences use the old sense of toil or painful effort.

examples

• And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. (Torah GEN.38.27, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom: 'Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us; (Torah NUM.20.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.' (Torah GEN.3.16, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

travail

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
• Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
• For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
• Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
• Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «travail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.