Job
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Job (plural jobs) refers to a piece of work or a task. Specifically, it may refer to
- the Activity:
- The activity of economic production, also called employment or labour.
- A scheduled and/or automated task for a computer in a batch processing environment; see Job (software).
In these cases, it evolved from Middle English jobbe (piece) or gobbe, (lump).[1]
- In the Bible, it refers to:
- The Book of Job (sometimes spelled Jobe), part of the Tanakh (or Old Testament)
- Job (Biblical figure) (sometimes spelled Jobe), the main character of the Book of Job
- One of the minor characters in the Book of Genesis
In these cases, it evolved from Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, Standard Iyyov Tiberian ʾIyyôḇ, "God is the father".[2]
- Job or Jobs may also have the following meanings:
- Job: A Comedy of Justice, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein
- Job (novel), a novel by Joseph Roth
- Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc.
- Job ben Solomon
- Joseph-Désiré Job
- Used in Pop Culture
- Job (professional wrestling), to lose or lie down
- Jobs (Remnants), a major character from K. A. Applegate's "Remnants" series
- La Job, a Quebec adaptation of the British cult TV series The Office
- Job (Still Life), the sociopathic, amoral, cave-dwelling "man-child" from the Preston-Child novel "Still Life with Crows."
- The job system is a system of character classes used in some games of the Final Fantasy video game series.
- Geography
- Job, Kentucky; the zip code is 41225
- Job, West Virginia; the zip code is 26274
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