ʻâmêl — H6001

Definition

masculine noun

toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful

1. n m
2. labourer, sufferer, wretched one
1. labourer, workman
2. sufferer
3. adj v
4. toiling

Usually translated as

that is a misery, had taken, wicked, that laboureth, workman

Origin

from H5998

• Derived from ʻâmal (H5998)

Greek equivalents

• pikría (G4088)
• pónos (G4192)

Occurrences

ʻâmêl occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Job (2), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (3)

• Judges 5:26 — She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s (עֲמֵלִ֑ים) hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
• Job 3:20 — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery (לְעָמֵ֣ל), and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 20:22 — In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked (עָמֵ֣ל) shall come upon him.
• Proverbs 16:26 — He that (עָ֭מֵל) laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
• Ecclesiastes 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken (עָמֵ֖ל) under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
• Ecclesiastes 2:22 — For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath (עָמֵ֖ל) laboured 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 in thy labour which thou takest (עָמֵ֖ל) under the sun.