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Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/工

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
工
わざ
Grade: 2
irregular

Etymology

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Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 工 (“work”), a Chinese pictograph of a carpenter's tool symbolizing work, to native Japanese word わざ (waza, “a work of great significance or intent”).

Noun

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工 (わざ)[1] (waza) → 業 (わざ) (waza)

  1. work

Quotations

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  1. ^ OT, page 2:
    第七日(なぬかめ)に神(かみ)其(その)造(つく)りたる工(わざ)を竣(をへ)たまへり即(すなは)ち其(その)造(つく)りたる工(わざ)を竣(をへ)て七日(なぬか)に安息(やすみ)たまへり
    Nanuka me ni Kami sono tsukuritaru waza wo oe tamaeri sunawachi sono tsukuritaru waza wo oete nanuka ni yasumi tamaeri
    And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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