amel · toiler, laborer

What it means

amel (עָמֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “toiler, laborer”.

One who toils hard, who wears himself out; a laborer. It is of the same family as "toil."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person who toils at work until worn out.
2. A person who suffers and is embittered by grief.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• toil ×2
• toils ×2
• laborer ×1
• one who suffers ×1
• sufferer ×1
• toiling ×1
• workmen ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×5

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• Job 3:20

  Why does he give light to the one who suffers, and life to the bitter of soul,

• Job 20:22

  In the fullness of his plenty he will be in straits; every hand of the sufferer will come upon him.

• Proverbs 16:26

  The appetite of the laborer labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18

  And I hated all my toil at which I toil under the sun, since I will leave it to the man who will be after me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:22

  For what is there for the man in all his toil and in the striving of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 3:9

  What profit has the one who works in that in which he toils?

• Ecclesiastes 4:8

  There is one, and no second; he has neither son nor brother, and there is no end to all his toil; also his eye is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving my soul of good?” This too is vapor, and it is a bad occupation.

• Ecclesiastes 9:9

  Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your life of vapor that he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vapor, for that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.