To toil
עָמַלStrong’s H5998amal (a-mal)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amal is the Hebrew word usually translated “that i have toiled”, “have toiled” and “it labors”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
Meaning
- To labour, toil(Qal) to labour
How it's translated
- that i have toiled 2
- they have toiled 1
- it labors 1
- that he toils 1
- that i had toiled 1
- he toiled 1
- that he will toil 1
- that someone will toil 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 8
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jonah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and 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 2:19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose 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.
Hebrew dictionary
עָמַל amal · to toil
1) to labour, toil 1a) (Qal) to labour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “toil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOIL, verb intransitive
To labor; to work; to exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration.
- “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing” Luke 5:5
All definitions and other forms of “toil”
TOIL, verb transitive
To toil out, to labor; to work out.
- To weary; to overlabor; as toil'd with works of war.
TOIL, noun
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind. toil may be the labor of the field or the workshop, or of the camp. What toils men endure for the acquisition of wealth, power and honor!
TOIL, noun
[Latin tela, a web; from spreading, extending or laying.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.