[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/labour.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / labour [← L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/L/) # labour «labour» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **hard work, especially work with your body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (labour; labours — rare); verb (labour, labours, laboured, labouring); proper noun (Labour — a UK political party) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Labour is hard work, especially work with your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m1) 2) Labour is the workers in a country or company, or the work they do for pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m2) 3) Labour is the process of giving birth to a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m3) 4) To labour is to work hard or to move with great effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m4) 5) Labour (with a capital L) is one of the main political parties in the UK, and there are Labour parties in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m5) 6) A labour can also be a hard task that someone is given to complete, such as one of the twelve labours of Heracles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#m6) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh it means hard work, as in six days of work, and the heavy toil forced on Israel in Egypt. In Job, Psalms and Ecclesiastes it also means the daily work of a person, and sometimes work that seems useless. Interpretation: The commandment to labour six days is paired with resting on the seventh, so the Sabbath is read as teaching that both work and rest are holy. Psalm 104 is read as showing a natural order in which people work by day and rest at night, and Job's "labour in vain" as a cry of a person who feels unjustly judged. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, child labour means children doing hard jobs for little pay. In maths, labour costs are what you pay workers: hours × rate. In everyday life «go into labour» means start giving birth. Phrases: hard labour, child labour, manual labour, labour costs, in labour, labour of love, Labour Party. ### examples - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; (Torah EXO.20.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x1) - God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' (Torah GEN.31.42, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x2) - Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.' (Torah EXO.5.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x3) - Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? (Writings JOB.39.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x4) - I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain? (Writings JOB.9.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x5) - Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. (Writings PSA.104.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x6) - Building the wall took a lot of labour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x7) - Mum went into labour at two in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x8) - In the past, children worked in factories — this was child labour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x9) - The plumber charged £40 an hour for labour; 3 hours cost £120. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x10) - The old horse laboured up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x11) - Making the quilt was a labour of love for Nan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x12) - The Labour Party won the election. (UK) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x13) - The farm needs more labour at harvest time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x14) - THE CRETAN BULL.--The seventh labour of Heracles was to capture the Cretan bull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/#x15) ### note British spelling «labour»; American spelling «labor» (also Australian «Labor Party»). Mostly uncountable. «Labourer» is a person who does manual work. «Laboratory» (lab) is a different word. In maths, labour cost = hours worked × pay per hour. ### In the corpora - [God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.984/) - [Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.125/) - [Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.562/) - [Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.174/) - [Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.566/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «labour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/labour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.