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title: עָמָל — trouble · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָמָל (5999), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 55 times: trouble. BDB 1906: n.m. trouble, labour, toil. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָמָל

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«עָמָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **trouble** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 55 times · **Key:** 5999 · **BDB:** עָמָל

### Glosses

toil (20); trouble (14); mischief (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

trouble [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5999/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. trouble, labour, toil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5999/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 4:8 f. Ec 10:15 (against AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 113, v. KöSynt. § 249 m) trouble, labour, toil (on this form as abstr. v. LagBN 143 BaNB 105);—ע׳ Nu 23:21 +; cstr. עֲמַל Ju 10:16 +; sf. עֲמָלִי Gn 41:51 +, etc.;— trouble (‖ sorrow): one’s own suffering, עָמָל וְיָגוֹן Je 20:18; ע׳ וָכַעַם ψ 10:14; עֳנִי וע׳ Dt 26:7 ψ 25:18; ע׳ וָאָ֑וֶן 90:10; ‖ אָוֶן Nu 23:21; Jb 5:6; ‖ שָֽׁוְא Jb 7:3; ע׳ נפשׁו Is 53:11; ע׳ בְּעֵינָ֑י ψ 73:16; וַיַּסְתֵּר ע׳ מֵעֵינָ֑י Jb 3:10; מְנַחֲמֵי ע׳ 16:2; אדם לע׳ יוּלָּד 5:7; בע׳ אנושׁ אינימוֹ ψ 73:5; שׁכח ע׳ Jb 11:16; נַשַּׁנִי ע׳ Gn 41:51 (E); ע׳ לא זכר Pr 31:7; תקצר נפשׁו בע׳ Ju 10:16. trouble, mischief, as done to others: ‖ שֹׁד Pr 24:2; יֹצֵר ע׳ ψ 94:20; ‖ רָע Hb 1:13; יָשׁוּב ע׳ בְרֹאשׁוֹ ψ 7:17; ע׳ וָאָ֑וֶן 10:7; און וע׳ 55:11; ‖ אָוֶן Is 10:1; 59:4; Hb 1:3 ψ 7:15; Jb 4:8; 15:35; עֲמַל שְׂפָתֵימוֹ ψ 140:10 mischief of their lips. toil, labour (late in Heb.): Ec 2:10(×2), 21, 24; 3:13; 4:4, 6, 8, 9; 5:14, 18; 6:7; 8:15; 10:15; c. עָמַל (q.v.) 1:3; 2:11, 19, 20; 5:17; עָמֵל (שְׁהוּא) ע׳ שֶׁאֲנִי 2:18, 22; ע׳ אֲשֶׁר עָמֵל 9:9; = fruit of labour, ע׳ לְאֻמִּים יִירָ֑שׁוּ ψ 105:44; וַיַּכְנַע בע׳ לִבָּם 107:12 he humbled their mind by toil.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 54 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָמָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5999/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.16/)

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כִּי־אַ֭תָּה עָמָ֣ל תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח כְּמַ֖יִם עָבְר֣וּ תִזְכֹּֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you trouble you.will.forget like waters \[which\].they.have.passed.away you.will.remember.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away;

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[Job 16:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.2/)

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שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְאֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.have.heard like these.\[things\] many \[are\].comforters of.trouble of.you all

*JPS 1917:* I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.

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