# עָמַל (amal)

Israeli respelling: a-mal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5998. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness

King James renderings: (take) labour (in).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/amal-h5998

## Occurrences

- [Psalms 127:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/127/1) — Except 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 16:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/26) — He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/3) — What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- [Ecclesiastes 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/11) — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexa…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/19) — And 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…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/20) — Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/21) — For 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 i…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/16) — And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
- [Ecclesiastes 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 un…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/17) — Then 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 o…
- [Jonah 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/10) — Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night…