Lexical Definition

‎עָמָל‎ ʻâmâl (aw-mawl') trouble ^H:N
from ‎עָמַל‎

grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

• toil, i.e. wearing effort
• hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind

1) toil, trouble, labour
1a) trouble
1b) trouble, mischief
1c) toil, labour

See Greek: ἀσθενέω · ἐκλείπω · κακοπαθέω · κακός · κενόω · κοπιάω · κόπος · μόχθος · ὀδύνη · πενθέω · ποιέω · πονηρία · πόνος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎עָמָל‎ noun masculine^{Job 4:8} feminine^{Eccl 10:15} (against Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 113}, see Kö^{Synt. § 249 m}) trouble, labour, toil (on this form as abstract see Lag^{BN 143} Ba^{NB 105}); — ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Num 23:21 +; construct ‎עֲמַל‎ Judg 10:16 +; suffix ‎עֲמָלִי‎ Gen 41:51 +, etc.; —

1. trouble (|| sorrow): one's own suffering, ‎עָמָל וְיָגוֺן‎ Jer 20:18 ‎וָכַעַס‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Ps 10:14 ‎עֳנִי‎ ‎׳‎‎וע‎ Deut 26:7; Ps 25:18 ‎וָאָ֑וֶן‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Ps 90:10 || ‎אָוֶן‎ Num 23:21; Job 5:6 || ‎שָֽׁוְא‎ Job 7:3 ‎נפשׁו‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Isa 53:11 ‎בְּעֵינָ֑י‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Ps 73:16 ‎מֵעֵינָ֑י‎ ‎׳‎‎וַיַּסְתֵּר ע‎ Job 3:10 ‎׳‎‎מְנַחֲמֵי ע‎ Job 16:2 ‎׳‎‎אדם לע‎ ‎יוּלָּד‎ Job 5:7 ‎אנושׁ אינימוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎בע‎ Ps 73:5 ‎׳‎‎שׁכח ע‎ Job 11:16 ‎׳‎‎נַשַּׁנִי ע‎ Gen 41:51 (E); ‎לא זכר‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Prov 31:7 ‎תקצר‎ ‎׳‎‎נפשׁו בע‎ Judg 10:16.

2. trouble, mischief, as done to others: || ‎שֹׁד‎ Prov 24:2 ‎׳‎‎יֹצֵר ע‎ Ps 94:20 || ‎רָע‎ Hab 1:13 ‎בְראֹשׁוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎יָשׁוּב ע‎ Ps 7:17* ‎וָאָ֑וֶן‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Ps 10:7 ‎׳‎‎און וע‎ Ps 55:11* || ‎אָוֶן‎ Isa 10:1; Isa 59:4; Hab 1:3; Ps 7:15*; Job 4:8; Job 15:35 ‎עֲמַל שְׂפָתֵימוֺ‎ Ps 140:10* mischief of their lips.

3. toil, labour (late in Hebrew): Eccl 2:10 (twice in verse); Eccl 2:21; Eccl 2:24; Eccl 3:13; Eccl 4:4; Eccl 4:6; Eccl 4:8; Eccl 4:9; Eccl 5:14*; Eccl 5:18*; Eccl 6:7; Eccl 8:15; Eccl 10:15 with ‎עָמַל‎ (q. v.) Eccl 1:3; Eccl 2:11; Eccl 2:19; Eccl 2:20; Eccl 5:17* ‎שֶׁאֲנִי שְׁהוּא) עָמֵל‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Eccl 2:18; Eccl 2:22 ‎אֲשֶׁר עָמֵל‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Eccl 9:9 = fruit of labour, ‎לְאֻמִּים יִירָ֑שׁוּ‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Ps 105:44 ‎לִבָּם‎ ‎׳‎‎וַיַּכְנַע בע‎ Ps 107:12 he humbled their mind by toil.

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