1. task, occupation, business — An activity or work that engages a person, particularly a divinely appointed or burdensome occupation (prominent in Ecclesiastes). All four clusters are grammatical variants of one meaning: bare/construct (S125399), with 3ms suffix (S125401), with conjunction waw (S125402), and with preposition beth (S125403). Multilingual glosses uniformly confirm a single sense: eng: task/his task/and task/in task, spa: ocupacion/su ocupacion (occupation), hin: कार्य/उसका काम (work/his work), arb: شغله (his occupation), kor: 일 (work) in all forms, swa: shughuli/kazi (business/work). No semantic distinction is evident between these purely syntactic variants. 8×
AR["أَعْطَى","الَّذِي-","بَطْنِ","سَيِّئٌ","شُغْلُهُ","لَا-","وَشُغْلٌ"]·ben["এবং-কাজ","কাজ","কাজ-তার","কাজের","ব্যাপারে"]·DE["Geschaeft","und-Geschaeft"]·EN["and-task","his-task","in-task","task","the-task"]·FR["dans-travail","et-travail","le-travail","son-travail-lui","travail"]·heb["ב-עניין","ה-עניין","ו-עניין","עניין","עניינו"]·HI["उसका-काम","और-कार्य","कठिन-कार्य","काम","कार्य","कार्य-को","कार्य-में","कार्य-से"]·ID["dalam-urusan","dan-urusan","pekerjaan-yang-berat","urusan","urusannya"]·IT["affare","affare-suo","e-affare","il-affare","in-affare"]·jav["ing-padamelan","lan-padamelan","padamelan","padamelanipun"]·KO["그리고-일","일","일-그","일-그의","일-에서","일-의"]·PT["a-ocupação","e-ocupação","em-ocupação","ocupação","ocupação-sua","é-ocupação"]·RU["в-занятии","забот,","занятие","занятие,","занятие-его;","и-занятие"]·ES["el-asunto","en-ocupación","la-ocupación","ocupación","su-ocupación","y-ocupación"]·SW["katika-shughuli","kazi","kazi-yake","na-shughuli","shughuli"]·TR["icinde-ugras","ugras","ugrasi","ve-ugras"]·urd["اور-مشقت","فکر-کی","مشقت","مشقت-اس-کی","کام","کام-میں"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. [עָנָה] vb. be occupied, busied with (ב), only Ec (perhaps Aramaic loan-word; Syriac ܥܢܳܐ be occupied with, ܥܶܢܝܳܢ occupation, affair; cf. Arabic عنى, عَنَا concern one, also be occupied by; Ecclus 42:8 margin);— Qal Inf. עֲנוֹת Ec 1:13; 3:10.