אָבַלʼâbal
mourn
Pronunciation: aw-bal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H56
Meanings
Qal: mourn, lament (Isaiah 24:7; Hosea 4:3; Joel 1:9)
Hithpa`el: play the mourner (1 Samuel 15:35; Ezekiel 7:12; Ezekiel 7:27)
Hiph`il: cause to mourn (Ezekiel 31:15; Lamentations 2:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 39 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time.
- Exodus 33:4 When the people heard these stern words, they went into mourning and stopped wearing their jewelry and fine clothes.
- Numbers 14:39 When Moses reported the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.
- 1 Samuel 6:19 But the Lord killed seventy men from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the Ark of the Lord. And the people mourned greatly because of what the Lord had done.
- 1 Samuel 15:35 Samuel never went to meet with Saul again, but he mourned constantly for him. And the Lord was sorry he had ever made Saul king of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 16:1 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”
See every passage
- Genesis 37:34
- Exodus 33:4
- Numbers 14:39
- 1 Samuel 6:19, 15:35, 16:1
- 2 Samuel 13:37, 14:2, 19:1
- 1 Chronicles 7:22
- 2 Chronicles 35:24
- Ezra 10:6
- Nehemiah 1:4, 8:9
- Job 14:22
- Isaiah 3:26, 19:8, 24:4, 24:7, 33:9, 66:10
- Jeremiah 4:28, 12:4, 12:11, 14:2, 23:10
- Lamentations 2:8
- Ezekiel 7:12, 7:27, 31:15
- Daniel 10:2
- Hosea 4:3, 10:5
- Joel 1:9, 1:10
- Amos 1:2, 8:8, 9:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).