a.mel describes a laboring person in reflections on toil, gain, and the portion received from work.

The attested adjective identifies the person who labors, appearing in questions about the gain from work, in the burden of toil that must be left behind, and in the portion connected with one’s work.

1. The person engaged in labor · dominant

   In Ecclesiastes 2:22 and Ecclesiastes 3:9, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in questions about what the worker gains from labor and work. Ecclesiastes 2:18 and Ecclesiastes 9:9 place the same form within reflections on toil that is left to another and toil connected with one’s portion in life; Ecclesiastes 4:8 depicts unending toil pursued without satisfaction.

   Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:22Ecclesiastes 3:9Ecclesiastes 4:8Ecclesiastes 9:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with forms of “labor,” “toil,” and “work,” but it is a whole-verse translation. Across these verses, those renderings frame the term within statements and questions about the person’s labor.