Definition

toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful

Etymology

from H5998 (עָמַל);

Word family

• עָמַל ʻâmal

How the KJV renders it

• that laboureth
• that is a misery
• had taken (labour)
• wicked
• workman

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.