עָמָל
ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5998 (עָמַל);
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
- toil, i.e. wearing effort
- hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
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 עָמָל 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
55 occurrences · 55 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- mischief5 · 14%
- of all his labour5 · 14%
- labour2 · 6%
- the labour2 · 6%
- in his labour2 · 6%
- all my toil1 · 3%
- perverseness1 · 3%
- and our labour1 · 3%
- for the misery1 · 3%
- sorrow1 · 3%
- wickedness1 · 3%
- neither doth trouble1 · 3%
- unto trouble1 · 3%
- and wearisome1 · 3%
- thy misery1 · 3%
- miserable1 · 3%
- his mischief1 · 3%
- is mischief1 · 3%
- and my pain1 · 3%
- also and sorrow1 · 3%
- they are not in trouble1 · 3%
- this, it was too painful1 · 3%
- with labour1 · 3%
- let the mischief1 · 3%
- of mischief1 · 3%
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.