עָמָל, preced. wds.) toil, trouble; fruit of labor, achievement. Midr. Till. to Ps. XC, 10 אפי׳ מלכותו ע׳ ואוו even man’s rulership is toil and vanity; Yalk. ib. 841. Ber. 17ᵃ אשרי מי … ועֲמָלוֹ בתורה blessed he that has been reared in the Law, and whose toil is in the Law. Gen. R. s. 31 שהיתה … בעמלו של רשע a curse rested on the wicked man’s labor. Ex. R. s. 22 שלא היה בעמלו גזל in whose acquired property there was no robbery; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 39 בית הע׳, v. דָּהוֹן.