Occurrences
ʻâmal occurs 7 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (1), Ecclesiastes (6)
- Psalms 127:1 — Except the LORD build the house, they (עָמְל֣וּ) labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 — What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh (שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל) under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that (שֶׁעָמַ֣לְתִּי) I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 — And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein (שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי) I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20 — Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took (שֶׁעָמַ֖לְתִּי) under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16 — And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath (שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל) he that hath laboured for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 — Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh (שֶׁיַּעֲמֹ֣ל) under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.