Help QuickNav Adv. Options
WEB

WEB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H5999 - ʿāmāl

Choose a new font size and typeface
עָמָל
Transliteration
ʿāmāl
Pronunciation
aw-mawl'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:2

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 - Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they afflicted like other men.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:44 - And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - As for the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2 - For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:7 - Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:3

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:10

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:11

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:18

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 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 labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:20

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?

Tools

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 that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:13

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:4

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:6

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:8

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:9

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came into the world, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 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 labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 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 of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:7

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 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 labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 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 labor which thou takest under the sun.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:15

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Gen 41:51–Isa 53:11) Gen 41:51–Isa 53:11

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Isa 59:4–Hab 1:13

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
WEB
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
WEB
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan