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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
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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 - and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor hath He seen perverseness in Israel; Jehovah his God is with him, And a shout of a king is in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare 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 ye all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 - See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:44 - And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2 - For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:7 - He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3 - What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10 - And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - 'Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - The two are better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Wo to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11 - Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

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