Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5999: עָמָל

ʻâmâl · pronounced aw-mawl' · “trouble”

Definition

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

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

Word origin: from H5998 (עָמַל);

Extended definition

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

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5999 is translated

  • trouble ×12
  • his ×12
  • mischief ×8
  • my ×6
  • toil ×3
  • the trouble of ×2
  • the labor of ×2
  • the toil of ×2
  • our ×1
  • was trouble ×1
  • is toil ×1
  • the mischief of ×1

Bible verses with H5999 (ʻâmâl)

ʻâmâl appears in 54 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • 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

    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 among them.

  • 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 oppression:

  • 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

    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

  • Job 4:8

    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

  • Job 5:6

    Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

  • Job 5:7

    Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

  • Job 7:3

    So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • Job 11:16

    Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

  • Job 15:35

    They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • Job 16:2

    I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

  • Psalms 7:14

    Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 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

    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 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 helper of the fatherless.

  • Psalms 25:18

    Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

  • 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

    They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

  • Psalms 73:16

    When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

  • 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 sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Psalms 94:20

    Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

  • Psalms 105:44

    And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

  • Psalms 107:12

    Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

  • Psalms 140:9

    As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

All 54 references

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