עָמַל
ʻâmal · aw-mal'
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (take) labour (in).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep › authority, the one who leads
To see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָמַל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- they labour1 · 9%
- laboureth1 · 9%
- which he taketh1 · 9%
- that i had laboured1 · 9%
- wherein i have laboured1 · 9%
- which i took1 · 9%
- that hath not laboured1 · 9%
- hath he that hath laboured1 · 9%
- that he taketh1 · 9%
- labour1 · 9%
- for the which thou hast not laboured1 · 9%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.