Lexical Definition

‎עִנְיָן‎ ʻinyân (in-yawn') task ^H:N-M
from ‎עָנָה‎

business, travail.

• ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair

1) occupation, task, job

See Greek: ἐνώπιον · πειρασμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עִנְיָן‎ noun masculine^{Eccl 1:13} occupation, task, only Ecclesiastes (Aramaic loan-word Lag^{BN 205}; common in Late Hebrew); — ‎׳‎‎ע‎ absolute Eccl 2:26; Eccl 3:10; Eccl 5:2*; Eccl 8:16 suffix ‎כַּעַס עִנְיָנוֺ‎ Eccl 2:23 his task is (sheer) vextion; ‎עִנְיָן רָע‎ Eccl 1:13 an evil (worthless) task, so Eccl 4:8 (Masora ‎עִנְיַן‎ as if construct, see Baer¹; Baer¹³; but Kö^{ii, 1, 99}), and, in weakened sense, Eccl 5:12* a bad business, bad affair.

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