Strong’s
H5998Verb11 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Psalm 127:1עָמְלוּ
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
- Proverbs 16:26עָמְלָה
A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3שֶׁיַּעֲמֹל
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Jonah 4:10עָמַלְתָּ
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
עָמַל vb. labour, toil
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.