H5998 עָמַל
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 11 KJV occurrences
עָמַל
ʻâmal · aw-mal'
Definition
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
KJV Renderings
(take) labour (in).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 11)
- Psalms 127:1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18¶ Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.