Labour(er)
עָמֵלStrong’s H6001amel (a-mel)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amel is the Hebrew word usually translated “laborer”, “workmen” and “sufferer”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
Meaning
- Labourer, sufferer, wretched onelabourer, workman · sufferer
- Adj v
How it's translated
- a laborer 6
- workmen 1
- to a sufferer 1
- a sufferer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 5
- Job 2
- Judges 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Hebrew dictionary
עָמֵל amel · labour(er)
1) labourer, sufferer, wretched one 1a) labourer, workman 1b) sufferer
עָמֵל amel · laborious
adj v toiling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.