# H5998 עָמַל

עָמַל (ʻâmal), Strong’s H5998: to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness KJV: (take) labour (in).. Occurs 11 times.

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*ʻâmal* — to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness

KJV: (take) labour (in).

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָמַל vb. labour, toil

## Where it occurs
- [Jonah 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/4?v=10) — The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came…
- [Psalms 127:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/127?v=1) — A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD…
- [Proverbs 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/16?v=26) — The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/1?v=3) — What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
- [Ecclesiastes 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=11) — 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…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=19) — 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…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=20) — Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=21) — For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/5?v=15) — 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…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/5?v=17) — 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…