עָמַל
a.mal
“to toil”
Definition
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
a primitive root;
- to labour, toil 1a) (Qal) to labour
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
עָמַל appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
What does a man gain from all his labor,at which he toils under the sun?
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.
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.
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
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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