H6001A

עָמֵל

a.melH:N-M

labour(er)

1) labourer, sufferer, wretched one 1a) labourer, workman 1b) sufferer

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. עָמֵל noun masculine^{Prov 16:26} labourer, sufferer; — ׳ע Prov 16:26 + 2 t.; plural עֲמֵלִים Judg 5:26 —

1. labourer, workman: Judg 5:26; Prov 16:26.

2. sufferer, Job 3:20 (|| מָרֵי נֶפֶשׁ), Job 20:22.

II. עָמֵל verbal adjective toiling, only Ecclesiastes, as predicate; — Eccl 2:18; Eccl 2:22; Eccl 3:9; Eccl 4:8; Eccl 9:9.

4 occurrences

Judges (1), Job (2), Proverbs (1)