a.mel denotes a person engaged in work, whether portrayed in toil, distress, or handling a hammer.

The occurrences portray a.mel as a person identified with work: one receives light amid bitter distress, another toils under the pressure of appetite, and plural workers are associated with a hammer; Job 20:22 also places such a person among those who come upon a distressed man.

1. A person engaged in work or toil · dominant

   The singular adjective occurs in clauses about a person in hardship or exertion: in Job 3:20 the APB renders light as given to “the laborer,” and in Proverbs 16:26 it renders a person whose soul “toils for him” because his mouth craves. In Job 20:22 the APB renders “every hand of the labourer” as coming upon a distressed man, while the plural form in Judges 5:26 is presented in the phrase “the workmen's hammer.”

   Job 20:22Job 3:20Judges 5:26Proverbs 16:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “laborer” or “labourer” in the Job verses and Proverbs 16:26, and with “workmen's” in Judges 5:26. These renderings confirm the work-related setting without isolating every English equivalent.