עָמָלʻâmâl
trouble, labour, toil
Pronunciation: aw-mawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5999
Meanings
1. trouble, (|| sorrow) (Jeremiah 20:18; Psalms 10:14; Deuteronomy 26:7)
2. trouble, mischief, as done to others (Proverbs 24:2; Psalms 94:20; Habakkuk 1:13)
3. toil, labour (Ecclesiastes 2:10; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 2:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 55 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:51 Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”
- Numbers 23:21 No misfortune is in his plan for Jacob; no trouble is in store for Israel. For the Lord their God is with them; he has been proclaimed their king.
- Deuteronomy 26:7 we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard our cries and saw our hardship, toil, and oppression.
- Judges 10:16 Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the Lord. And he was grieved by their misery.
- Job 3:10 Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble.
- Job 4:8 My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
See every passage
- Genesis 41:51
- Numbers 23:21
- Deuteronomy 26:7
- Judges 10:16
- Job 3:10, 4:8, 5:6, 5:7, 7:3, 11:16, 15:35, 16:2
- Psalms 7:14, 7:16, 10:7, 10:14, 25:18, 55:10, 73:5, 73:16, 90:10, 94:20, 105:44, 107:12, 140:9
- Proverbs 24:2, 31:7
- Ecclesiastes 1:3, 2:10, 2:11, 2:18, 2:19, 2:20, 2:21, 2:22, 2:24, 3:13, 4:4, 4:6, 4:8, 4:9, 5:15, 5:18, 5:19, 6:7, 8:15, 9:9, 10:15
- Isaiah 10:1, 53:11, 59:4
- Jeremiah 20:18
- Habakkuk 1:3, 1:13
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).