# עָמָל (amal)

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

Strong’s H5999. 54 Old Testament occurrences.

toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind

King James renderings: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/amal-h5999

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 41:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/51) — And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
- [Numbers 23:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/21) — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is…
- [Deuteronomy 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/7) — And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppress…
- [Judges 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/16) — And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- [Job 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/10) — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- [Job 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/8) — Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- [Job 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/6) — Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- [Job 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/7) — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- [Job 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/3) — So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- [Job 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/16) — Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
- [Job 15:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/35) — They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- [Job 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/2) — I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
- [Psalms 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/14) — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- [Psalms 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/16) — His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- [Psalms 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/7) — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- [Psalms 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/14) — Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the…
- [Psalms 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/18) — Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
- [Psalms 55:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/10) — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
- [Psalms 73:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/5) — They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
- [Psalms 73:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/16) — When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
- [Psalms 90:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/90/10) — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and…
- [Psalms 94:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/20) — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- [Psalms 105:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/44) — And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
- [Psalms 107:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/12) — Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
- [Psalms 140:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/9) — As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
- [Proverbs 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/2) — For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
- [Proverbs 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/7) — Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- [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 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/10) — And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and th…
- [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 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/18) — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- [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 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/22) — For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- [Ecclesiastes 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/24) — There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also…
- [Ecclesiastes 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/13) — And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
- [Ecclesiastes 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/4) — Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/6) — Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
- [Ecclesiastes 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/8) — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is hi…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/9) — Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
- [Ecclesiastes 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/15) — As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry awa…
- [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 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/19) — Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice i…
- [Ecclesiastes 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/7) — All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/15) — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/9) — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days o…
- [Ecclesiastes 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/15) — The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
- [Isaiah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/1) — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
- [Isaiah 53:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/11) — He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bea…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/4) — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquit…
- [Jeremiah 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/18) — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- [Habakkuk 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/3) — Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up stri…
- [Habakkuk 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/13) — Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and h…