TBESH · H5999
עָמָל · a.mal · trouble
1) toil, trouble, labour 1a) trouble 1b) trouble, mischief 1c) toil, labour
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a.mal H5999
עָמָל (a.mal) means “trouble” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עָמָל Hebrew · H5999 55 tagged occurrences in 54 verses
Pronunciation guide: aw-mawl' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H5998 (עָמַל); toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV glosses: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
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How translators render H5999
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 |
|---|---|
| trouble | 7 |
| and trouble | 3 |
| the labor | 3 |
| his labor | 2 |
| in his labor | 2 |
| labor | 2 |
| mischief | 2 |
| the toil | 2 |
| wrongdoing | 2 |
| after the anguish | 1 |
| and in your labor | 1 |
| and what | 1 |
| for his labor | 1 |
| for their labor | 1 |
| his misery | 1 |
| his trouble | 1 |
| his work | 1 |
| i had toiled | 1 |
| in the trouble | 1 |
| is but labor | 1 |
| miserable | 1 |
| my hardship | 1 |
| my labor | 1 |
| my work | 1 |
| of misery | 1 |
| of the burdens | 1 |
| only trouble | 1 |
| oppressive | 1 |
| the fruit of others labor | 1 |
| the misery | 1 |
| the sorrow | 1 |
| to his labor | 1 |
| to trouble | 1 |
| toil | 1 |
| was troublesome | 1 |
| who has labored | 1 |
| with hard labor | 1 |
| with toil | 1 |
| your misery | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| mischief | 6 |
| of all his labour | 5 |
| in his labour | 2 |
| labour | 2 |
| the labour | 2 |
| all my labour | 1 |
| all my toil | 1 |
| all the labour | 1 |
| all travail | 1 |
| also and sorrow | 1 |
| and in thy labour | 1 |
| and my pain | 1 |
| and on the labour | 1 |
| and our labour | 1 |
| and wearisome | 1 |
| for the misery | 1 |
| for their labour | 1 |
| grievance | 1 |
| grievousness | 1 |
| his mischief | 1 |
| his misery | 1 |
| in all my labour | 1 |
| let the mischief | 1 |
| miserable | 1 |
| misery | 1 |
| neither doth trouble | 1 |
| not in trouble | 1 |
| of all my labour | 1 |
| of all the labour | 1 |
| of his labour | 1 |
| of mischief | 1 |
| of the travail | 1 |
| on iniquity | 1 |
| over all my labour | 1 |
| perverseness | 1 |
| sorrow | 1 |
| too painful | 1 |
| travail | 1 |
| unto trouble | 1 |
| whose labour | 1 |
| wickedness | 1 |
| with him of his labour | 1 |
| with labour | 1 |
Verses containing H5999
Page 1 of 2. 54 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 41:51
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
Read word by word - Numbers 23:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
Read word by word - Judges 10:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
Read word by word - Job 3:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Read word by word - Job 4:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Read word by word - Job 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Read word by word - Job 5:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Read word by word - Job 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
Read word by word - Job 11:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
Read word by word - Job 15:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Read word by word - Job 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Read word by word - Psalms 7:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.15
- Psalms 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.17
- Psalms 10:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Read word by word - Psalms 10:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Read word by word - Psalms 25:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
Read word by word - Psalms 55:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.11
- Psalms 73:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
Read word by word - Psalms 73:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Read word by word - Psalms 90:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Read word by word - Psalms 94:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
Read word by word - Psalms 105:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
Read word by word - Psalms 107:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Read word by word - Psalms 140:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 140.10
- Proverbs 24:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
Read word by word - Proverbs 31:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
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 2:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
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 2:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
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 2:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 3:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 4:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 4:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 4:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 5:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.14
- 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 5:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.18
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 8:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 9:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 10:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Read word by word - Isaiah 10:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
Read word by word - Isaiah 53:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
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