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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/travail/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/travail/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/travail/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/travail/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1244/)
- [Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1410/)
- [For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1415/)
- [Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.392/)
- [Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.80/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «travail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/travail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.