H5999 - עָמָל (ʻâmâl)

H5999 עָמָל (ʻâmâl) aw-mawl'

Hebrew

Noun (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

trouble

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: from H5998 (עָמַל);

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

TWOT Reference: 1639a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) toil, trouble, labour

1a) trouble

1b) trouble, mischief

1c) toil, labour

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G770 G1587 G2553 G2556 G2758 G2872 G2873 G3449 G3601 G3996 G4160 G4189 G4192

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) toil, trouble, labour 1a) trouble 1b) trouble, mischief 1c) toil, labour

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָמָל ‛âmâl BDB Definition: 1) toil, trouble, labour 1a) trouble 1b) trouble, mischief 1c) toil, labour Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5998 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1639a Total KJV Occurrences: 55

Bible Occurrences (54)

41:51

23:21

26:7

10:16

3:10 4:8 5:6 5:7 7:3 11:16 15:35 16:2

7:14 7:16 10:7 10:14 25:18 55:10 73:5 73:16 90:10 94:20 105:44 107:12 140:9

24:2 31:7

1:3 2:10 2:11 2:18 2:19 2:20 2:21 2:22 2:24 3:13 4:4 4:6 4:8 4:9 5:15 5:18 5:19 6:7 8:15 9:9 10:15

10:1 53:11 59:4

20:18

1:3 1:13

Genesis 41:51

Joseph named... the firstborn Manasseh, saying, God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.

Numbers 23:21

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

Deuteronomy 26:7

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Job 3:10

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

Job 4:8

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 5:6

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks... fly upward.