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Strong's #5998 - עָמַל
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- to labour, toil
- (Qal) to 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.
labour, make; Sabean עמל work (? noun or verb) CIS iv. No. 250; Aramaic עֲמַל, 
; Zinjirli עמל; Assyrian nîmelu, gain, possessions); — Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳ע Ecclesiastes 2:21; 3 feminine singular עָֽמְלָה Proverbs 16:26; 2 masculine singular עָמַלְתָּ Jonah 4:10; 1 singular עָמַלְתִּי Ecclesiastes 2:11 2t.; 3 plural עָֽמְלוּ Psalm 127:1; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יַעֲמֹל Ecclesiastes 1:3 3t.; — labour (very late): in building Psalm 127:1; tillage, with בְּ Jonah 4:10; Generally, with בְּ Ecclesiastes 2:21, with לְ Proverbs 16:26; Ecclesiastes 5:15, with לְ + infinitive Ecclesiastes 8:17; עֲמָלוֺשֶׁיַּעֲמֹל Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 5:17, compare Ecclesiastes 2:11,19,20.
II. עָמֵל verbal adjective toiling, only Ecclesiastes , as predicate; — Ecclesiastes 2:18,22; Ecclesiastes 3:9; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 9:9.
עָמַל fut. יַעֲמֹל to labour, especially with toil and weariness, to toil, Proverbs 16:26; Psalms 127:1. Followed by בְּ to labour upon any thing, Jonah 4:10; Ecclesiastes 2:21.- Ecclesiastes 1:3, בְּכָל־עֲמָלוֹ שֶׁיַּעֲמֹלּ “of all the toil with which he toils.” Ecclesiastes 2:20, 5:17. (Arab. عَمِلَ to labour, to make). Hence
