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## H5998 Definition

 Strong's number H5998
 
Lemma עָמַל
 
Transliteration ʻâmal
 
Pronunciation aw-mal'
 
Strong's definition to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness (take) labour (in). a primitive root;
 
## 11 instances of the word עָמַל
 ʻâmal (H5998) 

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Ecclesiastes 1:3 - What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun

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Ecclesiastes 2:11 - Then I looked on all the works had wrought that my hands and on the labour that I had laboured had wrought and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sun

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Ecclesiastes 2:19 - And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun This is also vanity

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Ecclesiastes 2:20 - Therefore I went about to cause my heart of all the labour which I took under the sun

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Ecclesiastes 2:21 - For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom and in knowledge and in equity a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion This also is vanity evil and a great

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Ecclesiastes 5:16 - And this evil also is a sore that in all points as he came and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind

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Ecclesiastes 5:18 - Behold that which I have seen it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink Behold that which I have seen it is good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life giveth which God him for it is his portion

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Ecclesiastes 8:17 - Then I beheld all the work of God cannot a man find out all the work because that is done under the sun though because labour a man to seek it out find out man think it yea further though a wise to know cannot find out

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Jonah 4:10 - Then said the LORD Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow in a night in a night and perished

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Proverbs 16:26 - He that laboureth laboureth craveth for himself for his mouth

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Psalms 127:1 - Except the LORD build the house but in vain they labour build Except the LORD keep the city but in vain waketh keep

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