Strong's Concordance
Original word: עָמַל
Transliteration: amal
Definition (short): labored
Definition (full): to toil, work severely and with irksomeness
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to labor, toil
NASB Translation: does (1), labor (1), labored (4), laboriously (1), toils (2), work (1), works (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to toil, i.e. Work severely and with irksomeness -- (take) labour (in).
References
KJV:
{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
NASB:
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
KJV:
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
NASB:
A worker's appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on.
KJV:
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
NASB:
What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun?
KJV:
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.
NASB:
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.