Lexical Summary amal: trouble, labor, toil Original Word: עָמָלTransliteration: amal Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mawl') Part of Speech: Noun Short Definition: trouble, labor, toil Meaning: toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind Strong's Concordance grievance, iniquity, labor, mischief, misery, painful, perverseness, sorrow, From amal; toil, i.e. Wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. Of body or mind -- grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness. see HEBREW amal Brown-Driver-Briggs H5999. amal I. עָמָל noun masculineJob 4:8 feminineEcclesiastes 10:15 (against AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 113, see KöSynt. § 249 m) trouble, labour, toil (on this form as abstract see LagBN 143 BaNB 105); — ׳ע Numbers 23:21 +; construct עֲמַל Judges 10:16 +; suffix עֲמָלִי Genesis 41:51 +, etc.; — 1 trouble ("" sorrow): one's own suffering, וְיָגוֺן עָמָל Jeremiah 20:18; ׳ע וָכַעַס Psalm 10:14; ׳וע עֳנִי Deuteronomy 26:7; Psalm 25:18; ׳ע וָאָ֑וֶן 90:10; "" אָוֶן Numbers 23:21; Job 5:6; "" שָֽׁוְא 7:3; ׳ע נפשׁו Isaiah 53:11; ׳ע בְּעֵינָ֑י Psalm 73:16; ע ׳וַיַּסְתֵּר מֵעֵינָ֑י Job 3:10; ע ׳מְנַחֲמֵי 16:2; יוּלָּד לע ׳אדם 5:7; ׳בע אינימוֺ אנושׁ Psalm 73:5; ע ׳שׁכח Job 11:16; ע ׳נַשַּׁנִי Genesis 41:51 (E); ׳ע זכר לא Proverbs 31:7; בע ׳נפשׁו תקצר Judges 10:16. 2 trouble, mischief, as done to others: "" שֹׁד Proverbs 24:2; ע ׳יֹצֵר Psalm 94:20; "" רָע Habakkuk 1:13; ע ׳יָשׁוּב בְראֹשׁוֺ Psalm 7:17; ׳ע וָאָ֑וֶן 10:7; וע ׳און 55:11; "" אָוֶן Isaiah 10:1; 59:4; Habakkuk 1:3; Psalm 7:15; Job 4:8; 15:35; שְׂפָתֵימוֺ עֲמַל Psalm 140:10 mischief of their lips. 3 toil, labour (late in Hebrew): Ecclesiastes 2:10 (twice in verse); 2:21, 24; 3:13; 4:4, 6, 8, 9; 5:14; 5:18; 6:7; 8:15; 10:15; with עָמַל (q. v.) 1:3; 2:11, 19, 20; 5:17; ׳ע עָמֵל שְׁהוּא) שֶׁאֲנִי 2:18, 22; ׳ע עָמֵל אֲשֶׁר 9:9; = fruit of labour, ׳ע יִירָ֑שׁוּ לְאֻמִּים Psalm 105:44; בע ׳וַיַּכְנַע לִבָּם 107:12 he humbled their mind by toil. |
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