ἘΡΓΩΔΟΥΣ, ἐργωδους
ERGŌDOUS, ergōdous
Sounds Like: er-GOH-doos
Translations: difficult, laborious, troublesome, arduous, hard, a difficult, a laborious
From the root: ΕΡΓΩΔΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is difficult, laborious, or troublesome to do or achieve. It implies a task or situation that requires significant effort, hard work, or causes trouble. It can be used to describe a person, a task, or a situation.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G2042 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 3:150
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΡΓΩΔΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΡΓΩΔΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — more laborious, more difficult, more troublesome, more arduous
- ΕΡΓΩΔΗΣ — laborious, difficult, troublesome, hard, toilsome
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