Strong's #5998: `amal (pronounced aw-mal')

a primitive root; to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness:--(take) labour (in).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âmal

1) to labour, toil

1a) (Qal) to labour

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Psalms 127:1: "Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except"
Proverbs 16:26: "He that laboreth laboreth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of"
Ecclesiastes 1:3: "hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 2:11: "the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do:"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under"
Ecclesiastes 2:20: "of all the labor which I took under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 2:21: "and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion."
Ecclesiastes 5:16: "so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?"
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "the good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun all"
Ecclesiastes 8:17: "the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find"
Jonah 4:10: "the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in"