Definition

toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind

Etymology

from H5998 (עָמַל);

Where the KJV renders it

• grievance(-vousness)
• iniquity
• labour
• mischief
• miserable(-sery)
• pain(-ful)
• perverseness
• sorrow
• toil
• travail
• trouble
• wearisome
• wickedness

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.