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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמֵל²: adj. verb. toiling tree →

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 · 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 · 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

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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).

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