HebrewH5998Verb

עָמַל

a.mal

9Occurrences
H5998Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness

a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. to labour, toil 1a) (Qal) to labour

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

עָמַל appears 9 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ecclesiastes
6
Jonah
1
Proverbs
1
Psalms
1

Key Passages

Ecclesiastes 1:3BSB

What does a man gain from all his labor,at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11BSB

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:19BSB

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:20BSB

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21BSB

When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.

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