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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.
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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 called the name of the first-born, Manasse; for God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all [fn]my father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, the glories of rulers are in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - (LXX 7:15) Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - (LXX 7:17) His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - (LXX 9:28) Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - (LXX 9:35) Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 - (LXX 24:18) Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - (LXX 54:11) Day and night [fn]he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness are in the midst of it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - (LXX 72:5) They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - (LXX 72:16) And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - (LXX 89:10) As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and [fn]the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - (LXX 93:20) Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by an ordinance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:44 - (LXX 104:44) and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - (LXX 106:12) So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - (LXX 139:10) As for the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2 - For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:3 - What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - And I looked on all my works which my hands had wrought, and on my labour which I laboured to perform: and, behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - And I hated the whole of my labour which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - So I went about to dismiss from my heart all my labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is such a man that his labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; yet this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and great evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:22 - For it happens to a man in all his labour, and in the purpose of his heart wherein he labours under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - A man has nothing really good to eat, and to drink, and to shew his soul as good in his trouble. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - Also in the case of every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labour, this is a gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I saw all labour, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbour. This is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of trouble and waywardness 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 has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; and for whom do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? this is also vanity, and an evil trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - (LXX 5:14) As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labour, that it should go with him in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - (LXX 5:17) Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing for a man to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labour in which he may labour under the sun, all the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - (LXX 5:18) Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - All the labour of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labour all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - And see life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which are given thee under the sun: for that is thy portion in thy life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The labour of fools will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11 - the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to shew him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins.

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