Lexical Summary amal: to labor, toil Original Word: עָמַלTransliteration: amal Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mal') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to labor, toil Meaning: to toil, work severely and with irksomeness Strong's Concordance take labor in A primitive root; to toil, i.e. Work severely and with irksomeness -- (take) labour (in). Brown-Driver-Briggs H5998. amal עָמַל verb labour, toil (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic labour, make; Sabean עמל work (? noun or verb) CISiv. No. 250; Aramaic עֲמַל, ; Zinjirli עמל; Assyrian nîmelu, gain, possessions); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ע Ecclesiastes 2:21; 3feminine singular עָֽמְלָה Proverbs 16:26; 2masculine singular עָמַלְתָּ Jonah 4:10; 1singular עָמַלְתִּי Ecclesiastes 2:11 2t.; 3 plural עָֽמְלוּ Psalm 127:1; Imperfect3masculine singular יַעֲמֹל Ecclesiastes 1:3 3t.; — labour (very late): in building Psalm 127:1; tillage, with בְּ Jonah 4:10; Generally, with בְּ Ecclesiastes 2:21, with לְ Proverbs 16:26; Ecclesiastes 5:15, with לְ + infinitive 8:17; שֶׁיַּעֲמֹל עֲמָלוֺ 1:3; 5:17, compare 2:11, 19, 20. II. עָמֵל verbal adjective toiling, only Ecclesiastes, as predicate; — Ecclesiastes 2:18, 22; 3:9; 4:8; 9:9. |