Word

עָמֵל

ʻâmêl · H6001 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

labor, toil

Action by which humans are engaged in hard work, usually physical

Examples
Ecclesiastes 2:18 So I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what does a person get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What benefit is there for the worker from that in which he labors?
workman

A person engaged in hard physical labor

Examples
Judges 5:26 “She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.
Proverbs 16:26 A worker’s appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on.
hardship, trouble, wrong, mischief

State of excessive unpleasantness or suffering as result of one's own situation, or oppressive behavior of someone else

Examples
Job 20:22 “In the fullness of his excess he will be cramped; The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.
someone in misery

Person experiencing a state of excessive unpleasantness or suffering as result of one's own situation, or oppressive behavior of someone else

Examples
Job 3:20 “Why is light given to one burdened with grief, And life to the bitter of soul,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

5 occurrences in 3 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 2
אֲנִיI 2
אַתָּהyou 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הַלְמוּתhammer 1
יָדhand, power 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Serve002003002023: עָמֵל describes one who labors, a workman, as in Judges 5:26's "the workmen's hammer" and Proverbs 16:26's "a worker's appetite works for him."
People001001003: The word denotes a person by their occupation or condition, a laborer or sufferer, part of its range beyond the specific citations shown here.
Unsafe002003003022: The word also describes one who suffers misery, as in Job 3:20's "one burdened with grief" and Job 20:22's "everyone who suffers."

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָמַל ʻâmal · H5998 · to labor, to toil · 11×עָמָל ʻâmâl · H5999 · labor, toil, hard-earned wealth · 55×עָמֵלʻâmêl · H6001

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6001. amel I. עָמֵל noun masculinePro 16:26 labourer, sufferer; — ׳ע Pro 16:26 Pro…

H6001. amel
I. עָמֵל noun masculinePro 16:26 labourer, sufferer; — ׳ע Pro 16:26 Pro 16:2t.; plural עֲמֵלִים Jdg 5:26; —
1 labourer, workman: Jdg 5:26; Pro 16:26.
2 sufferer, Job 3:20 (|| נֶפֶשׁ מָרֵי), Job 20:22.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

People3 occurrences Serve5 occurrences Unsafe1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0