Usually translated as
mischief, misery, travail, trouble, sorrow, grievance, grievousness, iniquity, miserable, pain, painful, perverseness, toil, wearisome, wickedness, labour
Occurrences
ʻâmâl occurs 53 times in 52 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (1), Job (8), Psalms (12), Proverbs (2), Ecclesiastes (21), Isaiah (3), Habakkuk (2)
- Genesis 41:51 — And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil (עֲמָלִ֔י), and all my father’s house.
- Numbers 23:21 — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness (עָמָ֖ל) in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- Deuteronomy 26:7 — And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and (עֲמָלֵ֖נוּ) our labour, and our oppression:
- Judges 10:16 — And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery (בַּעֲמַ֥ל) of Israel.
- Job 3:10 — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow (עָ֝מָ֗ל) from mine eyes.
- Job 4:8 — Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness (עָמָ֣ל), reap the same.
- Job 5:6 — Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble (עָמָֽל) spring out of the ground;
- Job 5:7 — Yet man is born unto trouble (לְעָמָ֣ל), as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 7:3 — So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome (עָ֝מָ֗ל) nights are appointed to me.
- Job 11:16 — Because thou shalt forget thy misery (עָמָ֣ל), and remember it as waters that pass away:
- Job 15:35 — They conceive mischief (עָ֭מָל), and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Job 16:2 — I have heard many such things: miserable (עָמָ֣ל) comforters are ye all.
- Psalms 7:14 — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief (עָ֝מָ֗ל), and brought forth falsehood.
- Psalms 7:16 — His mischief (עֲמָל֣וֹ) shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Psalms 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief (עָמָ֥ל) and vanity.
- Psalms 10:14 — Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief (עָ֘מָ֤ל) and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 25:18 — Look upon mine affliction and my pain (וַעֲמָלִ֑י); and forgive all my sins.
- Psalms 55:10 — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow (וְעָמָ֣ל) are in the midst of it.
- Psalms 73:5 — They are not in trouble (בַּעֲמַ֣ל) as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
- Psalms 73:16 — When I thought to know this, it was too painful (עָמָ֖ל) for me;
- Psalms 94:20 — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief (עָמָ֣ל) by a law?
- Psalms 105:44 — And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the (וַעֲמַ֖ל) labour of the people;
- Psalms 107:12 — Therefore he brought down their heart with (בֶּעָמָ֣ל) labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
- Psalms 140:9 — As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief (עֲמַ֖ל) of their own lips cover them.
- Proverbs 24:2 — For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief (וְ֝עָמָ֗ל).
- Proverbs 31:7 — Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery (וַ֝עֲמָל֗וֹ) no more.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 — What profit hath a man of all his (עֲמָל֔וֹ) labour which he taketh under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:10 — And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my (עֲמָלִ֔י) labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10 — And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my (עֲמָלִֽי) labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and (וּבֶֽעָמָ֖ל) on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my (עֲמָלִ֔י) labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 — And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my (עֲמָלִ֔י) labour wherein 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 (הֶ֣עָמָ֔ל) labour which I took under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 — For there is a man whose (שֶׁעֲמָל֛וֹ) labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 — For what hath man of all his (עֲמָל֔וֹ) labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:24 — There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in (בַּעֲמָל֑וֹ) his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
- Ecclesiastes 3:13 — And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his (עֲמָל֑וֹ) labour, it is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 — Again, I considered all travail (עָמָ֗ל), and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 — Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail (עָמָ֖ל) and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his (עֲמָל֔וֹ) labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9 — Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for (בַּעֲמָלָֽם) their labour.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 — As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of (בַעֲמָל֔וֹ) his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
- 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 (עֲמָל֣וֹ) labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19 — Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in (בַּעֲמָל֑וֹ) his labour; this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7 — All the (עֲמַ֥ל) labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- Ecclesiastes 8:15 — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with (בַעֲמָל֗וֹ) him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and (וּבַעֲמָ֣לְךָ֔) in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 10:15 — The (עֲמַ֥ל) labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
- Isaiah 10:1 — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness (עָמָ֖ל) which they have prescribed;
- Isaiah 53:11 — He shall see of the travail (מֵעֲמַ֤ל) of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.