טֹ֫רַח
burden
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2960 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, טרח (ṭôrach) means “burden.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Deuteronomy (50%), then Isaiah. First canonically at Deuteronomy 1:12, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2960 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 50%
- Isaiah 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cumbrance 1×, They are a trouble 1×
- American Standard Version: Cumbrance 1×, They are a trouble 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Burden 1×, Troubles 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Burden 1×, Loads 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2960 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2960 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2960 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2960 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- burden
Word origin
Derived from טרח (ṭârach) (H2959) — to burden.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
טָרַח
- to run about, be busy, to take pains, prepare. Ab. Zar. 3ᵃ מי שט׳ וכ׳ he who has made preparations on Friday has food for the Sabbath (he who does good in this world can expect reward in the hereafter). Keth. 10ᵃ; Kidd. 45ᵇ חזקה אין … טוֹרֵחַ וכ׳ the presumption is that one will not go to the trouble of preparing a (wedding) feast and let it go to ruin, i.e. one must have weighty reasons for a divorce immediately after marriage; Yeb. 107ᵃ. Ber. 58ᵃ, v. טוֹרַח; a. fr.—[Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᵃ bot. דבר שאינו ט׳, v. טָרֵיחַ.]
- 1. to put to trouble, put a task on. Taan. 24ᵃ אתה הִטְרַחְתָּ וכ׳ thou hast put thy Creator to the trouble of &c. Snh. 8ᵃ מַטְרִיחִין אותי they (the wicked) put me to &c. Lev. R. s. 27 לא הִטְרַחְתִּי עליכם I did not tax you too heavily; a. fr.
- 2. to weary. Snh. 22ᵇ; Erub. 64ᵇ, a. e., v. טָרַד.
- 3. to trouble, beg persistently. Yalk. Ex. 244 ה׳ עליו he begged him instantly.
טְרַח I
- Targ. Koh. II, 11. Ib. IX, 9; a. fr.—B. Kam. 11ᵃ בדנפשיה ט׳ he takes pains with what belongs to himself (for his own benefit). Ḥull. 83ᵃ דאורח ארעא למִטְרַח וכ׳ in the bridegroom’s family they generally take more trouble in preparing the wedding feast &c.; a. fr. [Sot. 7ᵇ ומטרח, v. טְרִי.]—Part. pass. טָרִיחַ, f. טְרִיחָא giving trouble, troublesome. Ned. 25ᵃ מילתא דלא ט׳ an easily intelligible expression. Ḥull. 51ᵃ, a next w.—B. Mets. 112ᵇ ט׳ להו מילתא (Ms. M. ליה) it is too troublesome for them (for him); a. e.—[Sabb. 82ᵃ, v. טְחַר.]—B. Kam. 80ᵇ Ar., v. תְּרַח.
- 1. to make ready for moving, to load (cmp. טָעַן II) Targ. Job XXXVII, 11 (h. text יטריח).).
- 2. to trouble. Meg. 22ᵇ לא מַטְרַח ציבורא Ms. M. (ed. לא בעי למִיטְרַח, read למַטְרַח, v. Rashi, a. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) he would not trouble the congregation (to rise before him); Yalk. Lev. 669; a. fr.
- 3. to beg persistently. Lev. R. s. 16 א׳ עליה he insisted upon his telling him.—Y. Peah I, 16ᵇ bot. אין מַטְרְחַת עלוי if you strain the chord too much.
- 1. to be wearied. Targ. Y. Num. XIX, 2 אִיטְרְחָא (not אַט׳).
- 2. to be troublesome, difficult. Taan. 24ᵇ מי איכא דמִיטְּרַה וכ׳ is it so hard a labor to the Lord?
טֹרַח
- , v. טוֹרַח
טְרַח II
- = טוּרְחָא, painstaking, trouble. Ḥull. 51ᵃ ט׳ טְרִיחַ לההוא גברא what trouble has been taken by that man (myself)!—[Oth. version: ט׳ טַרְיֵיה וכ׳ weariness (of travel) made me shaky.]
טָרֵיחַ
- (טָרַח) troublesome, laborious. Y. M. Kat. I, beg., 80ᵃ דבר שאינו ט׳ (Y. Shebi. II, end, 34ᵇ טורח).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2960 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| טָרְחֲ/כֶ֥ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 1:12 | 1 |
| לָ/טֹ֑רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 1:14 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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