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# עָמֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6001

**laborer** — used 4 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

laborer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6001/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמֵל: n.m. labourer, sufferer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6001/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 16:26 labourer, sufferer;—ע׳ Pr 16:26 + 2 times; pl. עֲמֵלִים Ju 5:26;— labourer, workman: Ju 5:26 Pr 16:26. sufferer, Jb 3:20 (‖ מָרֵי נֶפֶשׁ), 20:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: a sufferer (1); of a laborer (1); of a sufferer (1).

## In the verses

[Job 3:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.20/#tree)

לָ֤מָּה יִתֵּ֣ן לְעָמֵ֣ל א֑וֹר וְ֝חַיִּ֗ים לְמָ֣רֵי נָֽפֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* why? does.someone.give to a.sufferer light and life to.\[people\] bitter of.soul

*JPS 1917:* Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —

[Proverbs 16:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.26/#tree)

נֶ֣פֶשׁ עָ֭מֵל עָ֣מְלָה לּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־אָכַ֖ף עָלָ֣יו פִּֽיהוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].appetite of.a.laborer it.toils for him (dm) it.presses on him mouth his

*JPS 1917:* The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth compelleth him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6001.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6001/): 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).