1) to mourn, lament 1a) (Qal) to mourn, lament 1a1) of humans 1a2) of inanimate objects (fig.) 1a2a) of gates 1a2b) of land 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to mourn, cause to mourn (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to mourn 1c2) play the mourner
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H56 — אָבַל
a.val · to mourn · Hebrew/Aramaic
33 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 37:34 · וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥לThen Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Exodus 33:4 · וַיִּתְאַבָּ֑לוּWhen the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.Numbers 14:39 · וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֥וּAnd when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.1 Samuel 6:19 · וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֣וּBut God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.1 Samuel 15:35 · הִתְאַבֵּ֥לAnd to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.1 Samuel 16:1 · מִתְאַבֵּ֣לNow the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”2 Samuel 13:37 · וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥לNow Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.2 Samuel 14:2 · הִֽתְאַבְּלִי־ · מִתְאַבֶּ֖לֶתSo Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.2 Samuel 19:1 · וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֖לThen it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”1 Chronicles 7:22 · וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֛לTheir father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.2 Chronicles 35:24 · מִֽתְאַבְּלִ֖יםSo his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.Ezra 10:6 · מִתְאַבֵּ֖לThen Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.Nehemiah 1:4 · וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖הWhen I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.Nehemiah 8:9 · תִּֽתְאַבְּל֖וּNehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.Job 14:22 · תֶּאֱבָֽל׃ פHe feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”Isaiah 3:26 · וְאָבְל֖וּAnd the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.Isaiah 19:8 · וְאָ֣בְל֔וּThen the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.Isaiah 24:4 · אָבְלָ֤הThe earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.Isaiah 24:7 · אָבַ֥לThe new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.Isaiah 33:9 · אָבַ֤לThe land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.Isaiah 66:10 · הַמִּֽתְאַבְּלִ֖יםBe glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,Jeremiah 4:28 · תֶּאֱבַ֣לTherefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”Jeremiah 12:4 · תֶּאֱבַ֣לHow long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”Jeremiah 12:11 · אָבְלָ֥הThey have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Jeremiah 14:2 · אָבְלָ֣ה“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.Jeremiah 23:10 · אָבְלָ֣הFor the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.Lamentations 2:8 · וַיַּֽאֲבֶל־The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.Daniel 10:2 · מִתְאַבֵּ֔לIn those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.Hosea 4:3 · תֶּאֱבַ֣לTherefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.Hosea 10:5 · אָבַ֨לThe people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.Amos 1:2 · וְאָֽבְלוּ֙He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”Amos 8:8 · וְאָבַ֖לWill not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.Amos 9:5 · וְאָבְל֖וּThe Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—