# H6001 עָמֵל

עָמֵל (ʻâmêl), Strong’s H6001: toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful KJV: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.. Occurs 9 times.

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*ʻâmêl* — toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful

KJV: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.

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

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָמֵל adj.verb. toiling, only Ec, as pred.
- עָמֵל n.m
- עָמֵל n.m. laborer, sufferer

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 5:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=26) — She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She…
- [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.
- [Job 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/3?v=20) — “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
- [Job 20:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/20?v=22) — In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=18) — I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=22) — For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
- [Ecclesiastes 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/3?v=9) — What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
- [Ecclesiastes 4:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/4?v=8) — There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/9?v=9) — Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun…