Hardship תְּלָאָה

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Nov 3, 2025 · 2m

We are in chapter eighteen of Exodus with our word for today used for the first time in the Bible. תְּלָאָה hardship, tribulation. It is used 4 times in the Old Testament. We find our word used in the sense of something that causes or entails suffering. What is interesting is that 3 out of the 4 times it is used the qualifier כָּל “all” precedes our word. So, we are not talking about a little rough patch but many troubles. Let’s look at the uses. The first one is in our chapter today. Exodus 18:8 Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for…