Trouble
עָמָלStrong’s H5999amal (a-mal)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amal is the Hebrew word usually translated “trouble”, “mischief” and “toil his”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Meaning
- Toil, trouble, labourtrouble · trouble, mischief · toil, labour
How it's translated
- trouble 10
- mischief 7
- toil his 5
- toil my 4
- in toil his 4
- toil 3
- and trouble 2
- toil of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 21
- Psalms 13
- Job 8
- Isaiah 3
- Proverbs 2
- Habakkuk 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 23:21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- Deuteronomy 26:7And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
- Judges 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- Job 5:6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
All 54 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עָמָל amal · trouble
1) toil, trouble, labour 1a) trouble 1b) trouble, mischief 1c) toil, labour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trouble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TROUBLE, verb transitive
trub'l. [Latin turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn. The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in Latin turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind. Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.
- To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.“An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water” John 5:4
- To disturb; to perplex.
- To afflict; to grieve; to distress.“Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved” Psalms 13:4
- To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.“Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things” Luke 10:41
All definitions and other forms of “trouble”
- To tease; to vex; to molest.
- To give occasion for labor to.
- To sue for a debt.
TROUBLE, noun
trub'l. Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.
- Affliction; calamity.“He shall deliver thee in six troubles” Job 5:19“Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles” Psalms 25:22
- Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance.
- Uneasiness; vexation.
- That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.
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.