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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 55 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 41:51–Isa 53:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas'seh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - Then we cried to the LORD the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2 - "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayest take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 - Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - Can wicked rulers be allied with thee, who frame mischief by statute?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:44 - And he gave them the lands of the nations; and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - Those who surround me lift up their head, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2 - for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:7 - let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3 - What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10 - And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil--this is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The toil of a fool wearies him, so that he does not know the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11 - he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.

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