{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5998",
  "lemma": "עָמַל",
  "transliteration": "ʻâmal",
  "definition": "to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness",
  "kjv": "(take) labour (in).",
  "occurrences": 11,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "עָמַל vb. labour, toil"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Jonah 4:10",
      "text": "The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/4?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 127:1",
      "text": "A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/127?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 16:26",
      "text": "The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/16?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 1:3",
      "text": "What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/1?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 2:11",
      "text": "Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 2:19",
      "text": "Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 2:20",
      "text": "Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 2:21",
      "text": "For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 5:15",
      "text": "This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/5?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 5:17",
      "text": "Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/5?v=17"
    }
  ],
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