amal · toil, labor

What it means

amal (עָמַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “toil, labor”.

To toil, to work hard and wearily.

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. To strive until weary.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• toiled ×4
• he toils ×3
• labor ×1
• labors ×1
• toil ×1
• toils ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×8
• Jonah×1

• Psalms 127:1

  A song of the ascents. Of Solomon. If YHWH does not build a house, in vain its builders toil on it; if YHWH does not keep a city, in vain the keeper stays awake.

• Proverbs 16:26

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

• Ecclesiastes 1:3

  What profit is there for the human being in all his toil at which he toils under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 2:11

  And I turned to all my works that my hands had done and to the toil at which I had toiled in doing them, and look, all was vapor and striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 2:19

  And who knows whether he will be wise or witless? Yet he will rule over all my toil at which I have toiled and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 2:20

  And I turned around to make my heart despair over all the toil at which I had toiled under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 2:21

  For there is a man whose toil is with wisdom and with knowledge and with skill, and to a man who has not toiled for it he will give it as his portion. This too is vapor and a great evil.

• Ecclesiastes 5:16

  And this also is a sickly evil: that exactly as he came, so he will go; and what profit is there for him that he toils for the wind?

• Ecclesiastes 5:18

  Look, what I have seen to be good, what is beautiful: to eat and to drink and to see good in all his toil at which he toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life which Elohim has given him, for that is his portion.

• Ecclesiastes 8:17

  then I saw all the work of Elohim, that the human being cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; however much the human being toils in seeking, he will not find it; and even if the wise man says that he knows, he cannot find it.

• Jonah 4:10

  And YHWH said, “You had pity on the plant, for which you did not labor and which you did not make grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.