The corpus record

τᾰλαιπωρ-ία

talaiporia · ἡ

hard labour

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Where it lives

Habacuc 2 · 18.28/10k
Joel 2 · 12.99/10k
Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
James 1 · 5.85/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Jeremias 7 · 2.53/10k
Psalmi 7 · 2.05/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

hard labour, regular use, exercise

hard labour, Hp. Aër. 21, Gal. 15.620,741; also simply, regular use, exercise, τῆς χειρός Hp. Art. 53.

2 hardship, distress

hardship, distress, Th. 4.117; τῇ τοῦ σώματος τ. And. 2.17; ἡ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τ. Plb. 3.17.8; ἡ περὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα τ. Phld. Oec. p.53 J.: pl., ταλαιπωρίας ἐνδέκεσθαι Hdt. 6.11; τετρυμένοι . . ταλαιπωρίῃσί τε καὶ ἡλίῳ ib. 12.

3 bodily suffering, pain

bodily suffering or pain, caused by disease, Th. 2.49.

In the wild

ταλαιπωρίας · talaipōrias Epictetus, Discourses 1.29 (DIORISIS sentence 1760)
ταλαιπωρίας · talaipōrias Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5433)
ταλαιπωρίας · talaipōrias Herodotus, Histories 4.134.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4906)
ταλαιπωρίας · talaipōrias Herodotus, Histories 6.11.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6235)
ταλαιπωρίῃσί · talaipōriēisi Herodotus, Histories 6.12.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6242)
ταλαιπωρίαι · talaipōriai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 954)

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Where it came from

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