Strong H6001H6001Bעָמֵל

laborious

One of the 2 senses of Strong H6001

Transliteration
‛âmêl
Pronunciation
aw-male'
Morphology
Hebrew Adjective

Definition

STEP sense: laborious

Exact lexical definition: toiling

Part of speech: adjective

BDB context: עָמֵל adj.verb . toiling , only Ec, as pred.

General definition

From H5998; toiling; concretely a laborer; figuratively sorrowful: - that {laboureth} that is a {misery} had taken {[labour]} {wicked} workman.

In the Bible

Strong H6001B appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • labour2
  • laboureth1
  • taken1
  • takest1

First verses

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:18
    Yea, 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.
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:22
    For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:9
    What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
  4. Ecclesiastes 4:8
    There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  5. Ecclesiastes 9:9
    Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
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