Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5998
עָמַל
a.mal · “to toil”
Used 11 times across 4 books
Definition
1) to labour, toil
1a) (Qal) to labour
1a) (Qal) to labour
Where it appears
Psalms1
Proverbs1
Ecclesiastes8
Jonah1
In the text
Psalms 127:1Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.Ecclesiastes 1:3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 5:15As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.Ecclesiastes 5:17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.Ecclesiastes 8:17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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