Toil

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

A — 1: Κοπιάω (Strong'S #2872 — Verb — kopiao — kop-ee-ah'-o )

"to be weary, to labor," is rendered "to toil" in  Matthew 6:28;  Luke 5:5 (  Luke 12:27 , in some mss.); in  1—Corinthians 4:12 , RV (AV, "we labor"). See Labor.

A — 2: Βασανίζω (Strong'S #928 — Verb — basanizo — bas-an-id'-zo )

primarily, "to rub on the touchstone, to put to the test," then, "to examine by torture" (basanos, "touchstone, torment"), hence denotes "to torture, torment, distress;" in the Passive Voice it is rendered "toiling" in  Mark 6:48 , AV (RV, "distressed"). See Pain , Torment , Vex.

B — 1: Κόπος (Strong'S #2873 — Noun Masculine — kopos — kop'-os )

"labor, trouble," is rendered "toil" in  Revelation 2:2 , RV (AV, "labor"). See Labor.

King James Dictionary

TOIL, To labor to work to exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration.

Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing.  Luke 5 .

TOIL, To toil out, to labor to work out.

Toil'd out my uncouth passage--

1. To weary to overlabor as toil'd with works of war.

Not in use nor proper.

TOIL, n. Labor with pain and fatigue labor that oppresses the body or mind. Toil may be the labor of the field or the workshop, or of the camp. What toils men endure for the acquisition of wealth, power and honor!  Genesis 5

TOIL, n. L. tela, a web from spreading, extending or laying.

A net or snare any thread, web or string spread for taking prey.

A fly falls into the toils of a spider.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To labor; to work; - often with out.

(2): ( v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

(3): ( n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; - usually in the plural.

(4): ( v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.

(5): ( v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.