- Original: μόχθος - Transliteration: Mochthos - Phonetic: mokh'-thos - Definition: 1. a hard and difficult labour, toil, travail, hardship, distress - Origin: from the base of G3425 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From the base of G3425 ; toil that is (by implication) sadness: - painfulness travail. Total KJV Occurrences: 3 • painfulness, 1 2 Corinthians 11:27 • travail, 2 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8