# H5999 עָמָל

עָמָל (ʻâmâl), Strong’s H5999: toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind KJV: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful)…. Occurs 55 times.

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*ʻâmâl* — toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind

KJV: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful)…

Derived from [עָמַל ʻâmal](https://besorah.bible/word/H5998) (to toil)

Occurs 55 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָמָל n.m. f. trouble, labor, toil
- 1 trouble (∥ sorrow): one’s own suffering
- 2 trouble, mischief, as done to others
- 3 toil, labour (late in Heb.)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 41:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=51) — Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my…
- [Numbers 23:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=21) — He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout…
- [Deuteronomy 26:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=7) — Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. The LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our…
- [Judges 10:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=16) — They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- [Isaiah 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=1) — Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
- [Isaiah 53:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=11) — After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=4) — No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief…
- [Jeremiah 20:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/20?v=18) — Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- [Habakkuk 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=3) — Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and…
- [Habakkuk 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=13) — You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal…