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# עָמֵל

Biblical Hebrew

**toiling** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

toiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמֵל²: adj. verb. toiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b5_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. verb. toiling, only Ec, as pred.;—Ec 2:18, 22; 3:9; 4:8; 9:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] toiling (3); \[are\] toiling (1); toiling (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.9/#tree)

מַה־יִּתְרוֹן֙ הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּא עָמֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* what? \[is\].the.advantage of the.\[one.who\].works in.\[that\] which he \[was\].toiling

*JPS 1917:* What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?

[Ecclesiastes 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.22/#tree)

כִּ֠י מֶֽה־הֹוֶ֤ה לָֽאָדָם֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָל֔וֹ וּבְרַעְי֖וֹן לִבּו֑שֶׁה֥וּא עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) what? \[is\].becoming to the person in all toil his and in the.striving his.heart his which he \[was\].toiling under the sun

*JPS 1917:* For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b5_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).