- Original: עמל - Transliteration: `amal - Phonetic: aw-mal' - Definition: 1. to labour, toil a. (Qal) to labour - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1639 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to toil that is work severely and with irksomeness: - [take] labour (in). Total KJV Occurrences: 11 • labor, 2 Psalm 127:1; Ecclesiastes 8:17 • labored, 5 Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Jonah 4:10 • laboreth, 1 Proverbs 16:26 • taketh, 2 Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 5:18 • took, 1 Ecclesiastes 2:20