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Lexicon :: Strong's H5999 - ʿāmāl

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עָמָל
Transliteration
ʿāmāl
Pronunciation
aw-mawl'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1639a

Strong’s Definitions

עָמָל ʻâmâl, aw-mawl'; from H5998; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind:—grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H5999 in the following manner: labour (25x), mischief (9x), misery (3x), travail (3x), trouble (3x), sorrow (2x), grievance (1x), grievousness (1x), iniquity (1x), miserable (1x), pain (1x), painful (1x), perverseness (1x), toil (1x), wearisome (1x), wickedness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H5999 in the following manner: labour (25x), mischief (9x), misery (3x), travail (3x), trouble (3x), sorrow (2x), grievance (1x), grievousness (1x), iniquity (1x), miserable (1x), pain (1x), painful (1x), perverseness (1x), toil (1x), wearisome (1x), wickedness (1x).

  1. toil, trouble, labour

    1. trouble

    2. trouble, mischief

    3. toil, labour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָמָל ʻâmâl, aw-mawl'; from H5998; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind:—grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
STRONGS H5999: Abbreviations
† I. עָמָל noun masculineJob 4:8 feminineEcclesiastes 10:15 (against AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 113, see KöSynt. § 249 m) trouble, labour, toil (on this form as abstract see LagBN 143 BaNB 105); — ע׳ Numbers 23:21 +; construct עֲמַל Judges 10:16 +; suffix עֲמָלִי Genesis 41:51 +, etc.; —
1. trouble (|| sorrow): one's own suffering, עָמָל וְיָגוֺן Jeremiah 20:18; וָכַעַס ע׳ Psalm 10:14; עֳנִי וע׳ Deuteronomy 26:7; Psalm 25:18; וָאָ֑וֶן ע׳ Psalm 90:10; || אָוֶן Numbers 23:21; Job 5:6; || שָֽׁוְא Job 7:3; נפשׁו ע׳ Isaiah 53:11; בְּעֵינָ֑י ע׳ Psalm 73:16; מֵעֵינָ֑י וַיַּסְתֵּר ע׳ Job 3:10; מְנַחֲמֵי ע׳ Job 16:2; אדם לע׳ יוּלָּד Job 5:7; אנושׁ אינימוֺ בע׳ Psalm 73:5; שׁכח ע׳ Job 11:16; נַשַּׁנִי ע׳ Genesis 41:51 (E); לא זכר ע׳ Proverbs 31:7; תקצר נפשׁו בע׳ Judges 10:16.
2. trouble, mischief, as done to others: || שֹׁד Proverbs 24:2; יֹצֵר ע׳ Psalm 94:20; || רָע Habakkuk 1:13; בְראֹשׁוֺ יָשׁוּב ע׳ Psalm 7:17; וָאָ֑וֶן ע׳ Psalm 10:7; און וע׳ Psalm 55:11; || אָוֶן Isaiah 10:1; Isaiah 59:4; Habakkuk 1:3; Psalm 7:15; Job 4:8; Job 15:35; עֲמַל שְׂפָתֵימוֺ Psalm 140:10 mischief of their lips.
3. toil, labour (late in Hebrew): Ecclesiastes 2:10 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 2:21, 24; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 4:4, 6, 8, 9; Ecclesiastes 5:14; Ecclesiastes 5:18; Ecclesiastes 6:7; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 10:15; with עָמַל (which see) Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:11, 19, 20; Ecclesiastes 5:17; שֶׁאֲנִי שְׁהוּא) עָמֵל ע׳ Ecclesiastes 2:18, 22; אֲשֶׁר עָמֵל ע׳ Ecclesiastes 9:9; = fruit of labour, לְאֻמִּים יִירָ֑שׁוּ ע׳ Psalm 105:44; לִבָּם וַיַּכְנַע בע׳ Psalm 107:12 he humbled their mind by toil.

† II. עָמֵל verbal adjective toiling, only Ecclesiastes, as predicate; — Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:22; [H6001 Ecclesiastes 3:9;] Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 9:9.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

41:51; 41:51

Numbers

23:21; 23:21

Deuteronomy

26:7

Judges

10:16; 10:16

Job

3:10; 4:8; 4:8; 5:6; 5:7; 7:3; 11:16; 15:35; 16:2

Psalms

7:15; 7:17; 10:7; 10:14; 25:18; 55:11; 73:5; 73:16; 90:10; 94:20; 105:44; 107:12; 140:10

Proverbs

24:2; 31:7

Ecclesiastes

1:3; 2:10; 2:11; 2:18; 2:18; 2:19; 2:20; 2:21; 2:22; 2:22; 2:24; 3:13; 4:4; 4:6; 4:8; 4:8; 4:9; 5:14; 5:17; 5:18; 6:7; 8:15; 9:9; 9:9; 10:15; 10:15

Isaiah

10:1; 53:11; 59:4

Jeremiah

20:18

Habakkuk

1:3; 1:13

H5999

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5999 matches the Hebrew עָמָל (ʿāmāl),
which occurs 22 times in 21 verses in 'Ecc' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3 - What profit hath a man of all his labour H5999 which he taketh under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: H5999 and this was my portion of all my labour. H5999

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour H5999 that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - Yea, I hated all my labour H5999 which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour H5999 wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour H5999 which I took under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is a man whose labour H5999 is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - For what hath man of all his labour, H5999 and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. H5999 This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, H5999 it is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - Again, I considered all travail, H5999 and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail H5999 and vexation of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; H5999 neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. H5999

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, H5999 which he may carry away in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour H5999 that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; H5999 this is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - All the labour H5999 of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour H5999 the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour H5999 which thou takest under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The labour H5999 of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
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