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זֵעָה

ze.ah

sweat

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Strong’s H2188Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the sweat of1

In the text

Genesis 3:19בְּזֵעַת
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[זֵעָה] n.f. sweat—Gn 3:19 (J).

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.