STRONGS NUMBER H5999


Word Summary
amal: trouble, labor, toil
Original Word: עָמָל
Transliteration: amal
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mawl')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: trouble, labor, toil
Meaning: toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind
Strong's Concordance
grievance, iniquity, labor, mischief, misery, painful, perverseness, sorrow,

From amal; toil, i.e. Wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. Of body or mind -- grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

see HEBREW amal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5999. amal

I. עָמָלnoun masculineJob 4:8 feminineEcclesiastes 10:15 (against AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 113, see KöSynt. § 249 m) trouble, labour, toil (on this form as abstract see LagBN 143 BaNB 105); — ׳עNumbers 23:21 +; construct עֲמַלJudges 10:16 +; suffix עֲמָלִיGenesis 41:51 +, etc.; —

1 trouble ("" sorrow): one's own suffering, וְיָגוֺן עָמָלJeremiah 20:18; ׳ע וָכַעַסPsalm 10:14; ׳וע עֳנִיDeuteronomy 26:7; Psalm 25:18; ׳ע וָאָ֑וֶן90:10; "" אָוֶןNumbers 23:21; Job 5:6; "" שָֽׁוְא7:3; ׳ע נפשׁוIsaiah 53:11; ׳ע בְּעֵינָ֑יPsalm 73:16; ע ׳וַיַּסְתֵּר מֵעֵינָ֑יJob 3:10; ע ׳מְנַחֲמֵי16:2; יוּלָּד לע ׳אדם5:7; ׳בע אינימוֺ אנושׁPsalm 73:5; ע ׳שׁכחJob 11:16; ע ׳נַשַּׁנִיGenesis 41:51 (E); ׳ע זכר לאProverbs 31:7; בע ׳נפשׁו תקצרJudges 10:16.

2 trouble, mischief, as done to others: "" שֹׁדProverbs 24:2; ע ׳יֹצֵרPsalm 94:20; "" רָעHabakkuk 1:13; ע ׳יָשׁוּב בְראֹשׁוֺPsalm 7:17; ׳ע וָאָ֑וֶן10:7; וע ׳און55:11; "" אָוֶןIsaiah 10:1; 59:4; Habakkuk 1:3; Psalm 7:15; Job 4:8; 15:35; שְׂפָתֵימוֺ עֲמַלPsalm 140:10 mischief of their lips.

3 toil, labour (late in Hebrew): Ecclesiastes 2:10 (twice in verse); 2:21, 24; 3:13; 4:4, 6, 8, 9; 5:14; 5:18; 6:7; 8:15; 10:15; with עָמַל‎ (q. v.) 1:3; 2:11, 19, 20; 5:17; ׳ע עָמֵל שְׁהוּא) שֶׁאֲנִי2:18, 22; ׳ע עָמֵל אֲשֶׁר9:9; = fruit of labour, ׳ע יִירָ֑שׁוּ לְאֻמִּיםPsalm 105:44; בע ׳וַיַּכְנַע לִבָּם107:12 he humbled their mind by toil.