אָבַל (a.val) means “to mourn” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: aw-bal' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אָבַל · a.val · to mourn
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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a primitive root; to bewail
KJV glosses: lament, mourn.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| mourn | 6 |
| mourns | 6 |
| mourned | 4 |
| will mourn | 3 |
| and mourn | 1 |
| and mourned | 1 |
| and mourning | 1 |
| and mourns | 1 |
| and the people mourned | 1 |
| are in mourning | 1 |
| but david mourned | 1 |
| dries up | 1 |
| going to mourn | 1 |
| he was mourning | 1 |
| i caused mourning | 1 |
| i mourned | 1 |
| it mourns | 1 |
| lament | 1 |
| mourning | 1 |
| pretend to be a mourner | 1 |
| they went into mourning | 1 |
| who has mourned | 1 |
| who mourn | 1 |
| will lament | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| mourn | 6 |
| mourned | 6 |
| mourneth | 6 |
| and mourned | 2 |
| shall mourn | 2 |
| and mourn | 1 |
| and mourneth | 1 |
| for he mourned | 1 |
| for this and every one mourn | 1 |
| how long wilt thou mourn | 1 |
| i caused a mourning | 1 |
| it mourneth | 1 |
| lamented | 1 |
| shall lament | 1 |
| therein shall mourn | 1 |
| thereof shall mourn | 1 |
| they mourned | 1 |
| to lament | 1 |
| unto her i pray thee feign thyself to be a mourner | 1 |
| was mourning | 1 |
| with her all ye that mourn | 1 |
| within him shall mourn | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 38 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Read word by wordWhen the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.
Read word by wordAnd when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordNow 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.”
Read word by wordNow Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordThen it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.2
Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordWhen I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Read word by wordNehemiah 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.
Read word by wordHe feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
Read word by wordAnd the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordThe earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
Read word by wordThe new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Read word by wordThe land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Read word by wordBe glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
Read word by wordTherefore 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.”
Read word by wordHow 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.”
Read word by wordThey have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Read word by word“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThe time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
Read word by wordThe king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
Read word by wordIn those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordGrain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
Read word by wordThe field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
Read word by wordHe said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
Read word by wordWill 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.
Read word by wordThe 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—
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