H5998 עָמַל (ʻâmal) aw-mal'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to toil

Strong's Definition

to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: (take) labour (in).

TWOT Reference: 1639

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to labour, toil

1a) (Qal) to labour

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עָמַל (a.mal) — to toil. 1) to labour, toil 1a) (Qal) to labour

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עמל (H5998)

verb · עָמֵל · עָמָל · עָמָל

Serve | verb qal

to labor, to toil = action by which humans are engaged in hard physical work

PSA 127:1 · PRO 16:26 · ECC 1:3 · ECC 2:11 · ECC 2:19 · ECC 2:20 · ECC 2:21 · ECC 5:15 · ECC 5:17 · ECC 8:17 · JON 4:10

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָמַל vb. labour, toil base

Bible Occurrences (11)

127:1

16:26

1:3 2:11 2:19 2:20 2:21 5:16 5:18 8:17

4:10

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and [what] I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether [that man] will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as... a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him — for this is his lot.