עָמַלʻâmal

עָמַל: labour, toil

Pronunciation: aw-mal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5998

Meanings

Qal: labour (Ecclesiastes 2:21; Proverbs 16:26; Jonah 4:10)

עָמֵל: toiling, only Ecclesiastes, as predicate (Ecclesiastes 2:18; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes 3:9; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 9:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

Psalms 127:1 Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good.
Proverbs 16:26 It is good for workers to have an appetite; an empty stomach drives them on.
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11 But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!
Ecclesiastes 2:20 So I gave up in despair, questioning the value of all my hard work in this world.

See every passage

Psalms 127:1
Proverbs 16:26
Ecclesiastes 1:3, 2:11, 2:19, 2:20, 2:21, 5:16, 5:18, 8:17
Jonah 4:10

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).