TBESH · H5998
עָמַל · a.mal · to toil
1) to labour, toil 1a) (Qal) to labour
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a.mal H5998
עָמַל (a.mal) means “to toil” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עָמַל Hebrew · H5998 11 tagged occurrences in 11 verses
Pronunciation guide: aw-mal' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
KJV glosses: (take) labour (in).
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How translators render H5998
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| as he toils | 1 |
| at which he toils | 1 |
| at which i have worked | 1 |
| efforts | 1 |
| i had toiled | 1 |
| labor | 1 |
| one does | 1 |
| tended | 1 |
| that i had done | 1 |
| worked | 1 |
| works | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| for the which thou hast not laboured | 1 |
| hath he that hath laboured | 1 |
| labour | 1 |
| laboureth | 1 |
| that hath not laboured | 1 |
| that he taketh | 1 |
| that i had laboured | 1 |
| they labour | 1 |
| wherein i have laboured | 1 |
| which he taketh | 1 |
| which i took | 1 |
Verses containing H5998
Page 1 of 1. 11 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Psalms 127:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
Read word by word - Proverbs 16:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 1:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 5:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.15
- Ecclesiastes 5:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.17
- Ecclesiastes 8:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Read word by word - Jonah 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
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