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Strong's #5999 - עָמָל
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- toil, trouble, labour
- trouble
- trouble, mischief
- toil, labour
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2551) lmo (אהמל AhML) AC: Labor CO: Laborer AB: ?: [from: lo- work]
V) lmo (אהמל AhML) - Labor: KJV (11): (vf: Paal) labour - Strongs: H5998 (עָמַל)
Nm/f) lmo (אהמל AhML) - I. Labor:A labor that causes grief, pain or weariness. II. Laborer:KJV (64): labour, mischief, misery, travail, trouble, sorrow, grievance, grievousness, iniquity, miserable, pain, painful, perverseness, toil, wearisome, wickedness - Strongs: H5999 (עָמָל), H6001 (עָמֵל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 לעיוּלָּד 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 (q. v.) 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.
עָמָל m. (once f. Ecclesiastes 10:15)
(1) heavy, wearisome labour, Ecclesiastes 1:3, 2:11 used figuratively of the mind, Psalms 73:16.
(2) the produce of labour, Psalms 105:44; Ecclesiastes 2:19.
(3) weariness, trouble, vexation, Gr. κάματος, πόνος, Genesis 41:51; Deuteronomy 26:7; Job 3:10, 16:2, מְנַחֲמֶי עָמָל “troublesome comforters.” Isaiah 53:11, מֵעֲמַל נַפְשׁוֹ “of the sorrow (or anguish) of his soul.” It is rendered by some, sin, wickedness (i.q. אָוֶן), Numbers 23:21; Isaiah 10:1 but the signification of vexation is not unsuitable in both places.
(4) [Amal], pr.n. m. 1 Chronicles 7:35.