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
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
- Proverbs 24:2
- Proverbs 31:7
- Ecclesiastes 1:3
- Ecclesiastes 2:10
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
- Ecclesiastes 2:18
- Ecclesiastes 2:19
- Ecclesiastes 2:20
- Ecclesiastes 2:21
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
- Ecclesiastes 2:24
- Ecclesiastes 3:13
- Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
- Ecclesiastes 4:8
- Ecclesiastes 4:9
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
- Ecclesiastes 5:18
- Ecclesiastes 5:19
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
- Ecclesiastes 8:15
- Ecclesiastes 9:9
- Ecclesiastes 10:15
- Isaiah 10:1
- Isaiah 53:11
- Isaiah 59:4
- Jeremiah 20:18
- Habakkuk 1:3
- Habakkuk 1:13